In the deportation time Mariam's husband was a soldier in the Turkish army. She was exiled with her son, Jakub (No. 1158, 14), and with her mother, the caravan moved forward and reached the village Dashiye, where the hostile bands attacked them. As many other women, Mariam too, came into the possession of a Kurd and by him she was brought to his house. Thus, she was separated from her son and mother. Mariam's possessor married her by force and she was obliged to live with him without being aware of the fate of her son and mother.

            In the process of time, she was informed by a Christian woman in Mardin that her son is alive and lives in the village Bagara. Without any delay she began to make preparations to get her son again and one day she took some products of the garden and begged her husband to allow her to go to Mardin to sell them. In this way she made short work of reaching her son. She went to her old acquaintance, to the Christian woman, who put a horse at Mariam's disposal. Thus she reached the village Bagara and succeeded in regaining her son with whom she fled to Hassitshe from where by our agent both of them were sent to us.

Left our care: March 23, 1927. Living with her relatives in Aleppo.