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Movses Potoghlian (Krikor) from Harpoot Tchar-Kogh



First name

Movses

Last name

Potoghlian

Father's name

Krikor

Mother's name

Vartig

Native country

Harpoot Tchar-Kogh

Age

20

Orphanage

Karen Jeppe / Aleppo

Admission YYYY-MM-DD

1927 - 08 - 20

Register number

1398

Release YYYY-MM-DD

1927 - 09 - 10

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            A few days before the whole family was deported to Izoli. The father was killed at the entrance of his house. After several days of fast walking they came to the town where already thousands of Armenians were massacred by the Kurds. However, their destroyers had been kinder to them than to others. They were living among the Kurds and could even flee a few weeks later. They went back to their native town. Some Kurdish friends protected them and took them to their houses whenever danger surrounded them. When Movses was 19 years old he did not want to serve in the Turkish army. He fled to another city in Turkey but there they wanted to Islamize him right away. He immediately fled over the frontier and came to Hassitshe. Our agent sent him directly to Aleppo.

 

  

Left our care: September 10, 1927. Selfsupporting.