When the deportation started the whole family was exiled in the direction of Meadin. Near Deir-el-Zor, the gendarms separated the men from the caravan and sent them in an unknown direction. Among them was also Yevpime's father. What became of him at least, is not certainly known. The mother, in order to save her children from further sufferings, left Yevpime in the charge of an Arab, and her two sisters she gave to a Turk and set forth with the caravan, bidding them the final farewell. By the Turk her sisters were ill-treated and exiled again, but the Arab kept Yevpime and took care of her as his child, till she had the opportunity to return to her own nation.

Left our care: May 8, 1926. Relatives, Aleppo.