Choushan was deported with all her relatives, parents, grandfather and grandmother, two sisters and two brothers. On the way to Diarbekir all the men in the caravan were taken aside and killed. Somedays afterwards Kurds attacked the caravan, her two brothers and her grandmother were killed. The rest of the caravan arrived at Deir-el-Zor. There they stayed two years then Choushan's mother was sent further on with the caravan she herself and her two sisters were placed in a Turkish orphanage.

            One night the government brought the children, about a thousand, out on a field nearby and threw them in a big pit. They gathered fuel, poured petrol on it and set it on fire. After a while Arabs came, extinguished the fire, ascended the pit and searched for the living ones. Those they murdered in a cruel way. An Arab was just about killing Choushan, as another Arab saved her and brought her along with him. She does not know what became of her little sisters. After some months that Arab sold her to another Arab by name Taba Salih Djebouri who married her. Newly when she heard that some of her relatives were living in America, she with the permission of her husband, went with her little daughter to our rescue-home in Aleppo, leaving her son by him.

Left our care: 1928. Went to her uncle in America.