Yester was exiled with her parents, two brothers and three sisters. They wandered ten days in the mountains until they reached Derik. The caravan rested three days in the open country. The following day the gendarms separated the men from the women. In half an hour they exterminated hundreds of men before the eyes of those they loved. Yester witnessed the slaughter and lost her parents, three sisters and two brothers. A Kurd took her to his house, where she remained two days only, then came a sheikh, Abdullah Tchelebi and took Yester for himself. He brought her to Mardin, where she lived eleven years with this sheikh until she was rescued by an Armenian Catholic priest who sent her to us.

Left our care: December 6, 1926. Relatives. Sister in Beirut.