In 1925, renowned Polish writer Zofia Nałkowska wrote a story, in which she described the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. 

Polish scholar Zbigniew Szmurło, who studies Armenia and the Armenian Genocide for the past 25 years, told about the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

In his words, Nałkowska was in Switzerland in 1925, and she met with a group of Armenians who had survived the genocide and were being treated at a Swiss hospital.  

They told the writer what had happened ten years ago in Turkey, and their stories were incorporated in Nałkowska’s book titled Choucas.

Szmurło explained that “choucas” are black crows, and according to the author, the Armenian women who had escaped from Turkey, gotten scrawny, and were dressed in black, were similar to these black crows.  

As per Zbigniew Szmurło, Zofia Nałkowska was one of the first persons in Europe to raise awareness about the Armenian Genocide and present it in her works.