A bust in honor of Danish missionary Maria Jacobsen, who helped Armenians during Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, will be unveiled Sunday in Solvang, in the US State of California.

About 50 representatives of the Armenian churches in the Los Angeles area will attend the dedication. 

At the turn of the 20th century, Jacobsen traveled to the Ottoman Empire as a member of a missionary mission.

She saved the lives of up to 3,000 orphans during the genocide, and she adopted three orphaned children.

In 1922, Jacobsen moved many of the children to an orphanage she established near Beirut, Lebanon. She was buried there following her death in 1960.

Jacobsen is affectionately known today by the Armenian people as “Mayrik” (Mama, in Armenian)

Maria Jacobsen was a witness of the physical extermination of the Armenians.