His father was a soldier in the Turkish army. Bedros was exiled with his mother, two sisters and one brother to Severek. There a Turkish officer took his one sister away from him. The rest were forced to continue their way and reached Aleppo, where his second sister fell ill and died. After a few days rest mother and two brothers were sent again forwards to Deir-el-Zor, there he witnesses his mother's death. Bedros in great misery began to beg bread here and there and in this way he lost his brother too. He himself came into the possession of an Arab, with whom he lived eleven years working as a camelherdsman. One day his tribe came near Aleppo, there he got time to flee and in this way he reached our rescue-house. Bedros knows certainly that he has relatives in America but he does not remember their name.

Left our care: December 15, 1926. Selfsupporting. Trade. Came back April 4, 1927. Finally left December 20, 1927. Selfsupporting.