Nellie Miller-Mann

Nellie Miller Mann (March 27, 1897 – February 2, 1997) was an American secretary in the Near East Relief (1921–1923), and a Sunday school teacher in a Mennonite Church in Indianapolis.

During her time in the Near East Relief (now Near East Foundation), Nellie Miller Mann was instrumental in caring for hundreds of Armenian refugees who had survived the Armenian genocide. During her early life, she became a member of the Mennonite Church. Mann then went to Goshen, Indiana, where she attended Goshen College. She studied there from 1918 to 1921. While studying there, she had overheard of the situation regarding the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. Having been motivated to help, Orie Miller, the leader of the Mennonite Relief Commission, which later became known as Mennonite Central Committee, arranged for a number of Mennonite young men to go to Russia, Turkey and Syria under the Near East Relief Foundation to assist the refugees and orphans. Upon her arrival in Beirut, she noted that in addition to the Armenian refugees who escaped in 1915, there was continuous influx of refugees as a result of the circumstances for the Armenians in Cilicia. She described the situation as follows: She notes that when many of the orphaned children arrived in Syria, they were placed in one of the 18 or 20 orphanages in the vicinity, where they were fed, clothed, given medical care and given a vocational education. After moving to Zouk Michail in July 1922, she established an orphanage which sheltered 208 Armenian children from Cilicia.

Her writings and photographs have been recently published in a 226-page book entitled Letters from Syria 1921-1923: A Response to the Armenian Tragedy, Including Stories, Travel and Reports.