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The Armenians of Musa Dagh were violently expelled from their six village by the Ottomans in 1915. They fled, seeking refuge in Lebanon, which was always a haven for the religiously persecuted, especially the Christians of the East. They made their new home in the historic area known today as Anjar in the fertile valley of the Bekaa in Lebanon. The Armenians-Lebanese have become an integral part of the diversity that makes Lebanon a very unique country in that tumulus region. Today, the town of Anjar is divided into six districts, each commemorating one of the villages of Musa Dagh.
By the time the Armenians of the six villages at the base of MusaDagh were instructed to evict their homes, the inhabitants had grown suspicious of the government's ultimate intentions and chose instead to retreat up the mountain and to defy the evacuation order.
MusaDagh, or the Mountain of Moses, stood on the Mediterranean Sea south of the coastal town of Alexandretta (modern-day Iskenderun) and west of ancient Antioch.
MusaDagh stood as the sole instance where the Western Allies at war with the Ottomans averted the death of a community during the Armenian Genocide.
The Forty Days of MusaDagh is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Jewish author Franz Werfel based around an event that supposedly took place on Musa Mountain in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide in Turkey.
Werfel also wrote prophetically about the consequences of Nazi anti-Semitism, and The Forty Days of MusaDagh was one of the books banned in Nazi Germany in February of 1934, according to the §7 of the Decree of the Reich President for the protection of people and state.
MusaDagh often has been compared with the resistances in the Jewish ghettos during the Second World War, one of those, the ghetto of Bialystok found itself in the same situation when in February 1943, Mordecai Tannenbaum, an “inmate” of the Vilna Ghetto was sent with others to organize Bialystok's resistance.
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