During the deportation Hovhannes was exiled with his parents. When they reached Deir-el-Zor the caravan was encamped outside the city. The following day they wer sent further on without leaving them breath on the way. Hovhannes' mother gave her child to an Arab of her own accord and she continued her journey where did she go? Nobody ever knew. He remained in the Arab's tent but he thought of his mother constantly. After eleven years, when he grew up, he fled and made all possible efforts to get the track of his mother, but in vain. Hopeless, the poor boy one day knocked at the door of our agent in Hassitshe then he was sent to us.

Went to our colony September 20, 1926. Married to No. 1264.