Yohannes was exiled from Bafra with his parents, brothers and sisters. After some days journey his father, older brother and he himself succeeded in coming out of the caravan and hiding themselves when the others were driven further on. They returned to Bafra but there the government put his father and brother in prison and killed them. A Turk took Yohannes in his house, where he stayed five years as a slave. Then he a again was exiled in the direction Harpoot, Aghana Maden. There a Kurd dragged away with him and he became a shepherd with that man seven years. He often met with Toros and Garabed and when he heard that those two had made up their minds to flee. He joined them and one day they all of them arrived in Aleppo.

Left our care: June 1, 1927. Selfsupporting, Beirut.