He himself does not remember anything about his earliest childhood. He tells us that some Armenians who were in the same village informed him about his being an Armenian and that he was deported with his parents from Van in the direction of Diarbekir where he was taken by a Kurd. One day he heard that his broher Zakar was living in Mosul by an Arab. He fled with some merchants to Baghdad and afterwards to Kut-el-Amara. There an Arab took possession of him and he had to work for that man many years. One day his possessor beat him in that way that he resolved to flee. On the road he met with an Armenian chauffeur who put him into his motor-car and brought him safely to our rescue-home in Aleppo.

Left our care: June 11, 1927. Selfsupporting.