Editing Sarah Aaronsohn (section)

==Biography==
[[File:Sarah Aaronsohn and her husband.jpg|thumb|Aaronsohn with Abraham in 1914]]
Sarah Aaronsohn was born in [[Zichron Yaakov]], which at the time was part of [[Ottoman Syria]]. Her parents were Zionists from Romania who had come to Ottoman Palestine as some of the first settlers of the [[First Aliyah]] and were founders of the [[moshava]] where Aaronsohn was born.<ref name="jwa.org">{{cite web|url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/aaronsohn-sarah|title=Sarah Aaronsohn – Jewish Women's Archive|website=jwa.org|accessdate=5 October 2017}}</ref> Encouraged by her brother Aaron, she studied languages and was fluent in Hebrew, Yiddish, Turkish and French, had reasonable command of Arabic and taught herself English.<ref name="jwa.org"/> On 31 March 1914, she was married in [[Atlit (modern town)|Atlit]] to Haim Abraham, an affluent merchant from Bulgaria, and Zionist activist <ref>{{Cite web|title=Haim Abraham|url=http://www.danielabraham.net/tree/abraham/haim/|access-date=2020-12-12|website=www.danielabraham.net}}</ref> and lived briefly with him in [[Istanbul]]; but the marriage was an unhappy one and she returned home to Zichron Yaakov in December 1915.

On her way from Istanbul to [[Haifa]], Aaronsohn witnessed part of the [[Armenian genocide]].  She testified to seeing hundreds of bodies of Armenian men, women, children, and babies; sick Armenians being loaded onto trains; with the dead being tossed out and replaced by the living.<ref name="god's name">{{cite book |first1 = Omer|first2= Phyllis | last1 = Bartov|last2= Mack | title = In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century | publisher = Berghahn Books | pages = 274–275 | year = 2001 | isbn = 1-57181-214-8}}</ref> After her trip to Haifa, any allusions to Armenians upset her greatly.<ref name="god's name"/> According to [[Chaim Herzog]], Aaronsohn decided to assist British forces as a result of what she had witnessed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genocide1915.info/research/view.asp?ID=8|title=Armenian Genocide Research – The First World War : A Complete History<!-- Bot generated title -->|accessdate=5 October 2017|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928001629/http://www.genocide1915.info/research/view.asp?ID=8|archivedate=28 September 2007}}</ref>