Hagop was exiled with his parents from Malatia to Albistan. They passed the night there. The following day when he awoke his parents were absent. When he was weeping bitterly a Kurd came and took him to his house. Hagop lived eleven years with that man. During that time he worked as a shepherd in winter time and in summer as a farmer. One day, upon the mountains with his sheep, he remembered his parents and begun to weep for them and resolved to go to Aleppo hoping to find them. He met with some muleteers who were going to Marash and then to Aleppo and offered them his aid on the road. The muleteers were glad to have a helper and took him with them. In Aleppo an Armenian met him in the Armenian church and brought him to us.

Left our care: November 10, 1926. Relatives.