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Sarah (Karayan) from Rumkale



First name

Sarah

Last name


Father's name

Karayan

Mother's name


Native country

Rumkale

Age

19

Orphanage

Karen Jeppe / Aleppo

Admission YYYY-MM-DD

1928 - 08 - 17

Register number

1776

Release YYYY-MM-DD

1928 - 08 - 18

Taken by

Parents in Aleppo






            When the parents were deported, they left Sara with her grandmother hoping that both of them might remain in Rumkale. Yet, the poor old woman received the order that she had to go with another caravan. She feared, became ill and died suddenly. Poor Sara was alone. A rich Turkish functionary pitied her and took her in his house. He kept her as a daughter. Newly that Turk had to move to Urfa, and as there at the same time came the news that Sara's parents were alive and had reached Aleppo, he asked her, whether she wanted to go with him or to her parents. She choose her parents. The Turk sent her to a friend of his, a Turk in Biredjik, who had promised to send her on to Aleppo. That friend was a rascal, who kept the girl and treated her badly. The parents who had heard about that turned to us for help and we succeeded in rescuing her. The poor girl was immediately sent to hospital where she became a child.

 

 

Left our care: August 18, 1928. Living with her mother and father in Aleppo.