Vanes does not remember his father. He was deported with his mother to Damascus. An Arab took possession of Vanes and brought him to a village near Hamah. Before Vanes left his mother, she had given him a little piece of paper sewn in a rag, bound it round his arm and said to him: Keep that well, one day you shall need it. After a year his possessor died, and Vanes fled to some Circassians, where he stayed eleven years. The people did not know that he was an Armenian. They saw that something was tied round his arm and asked him what it was. He answered: "An amulet." One day an interpreter came to that village, and his owner who wanted to see what was in that rag that Vanes always wore, opened it by force. On the paper was written that Vanes was an Armenian, his full name and birthplace. Vanes immediately fled and reached us safely.

Left our care: May , 14, 1927. Died in our colony June 1927.