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Yester Sandjian (Manoug) from Marash



First name

Yester

Last name

Sandjian

Father's name

Manoug

Mother's name


Native country

Marash

Age

36

Orphanage

Karen Jeppe / Aleppo

Admission YYYY-MM-DD

1926 - 02 - 08

Register number

935

Release YYYY-MM-DD

1926 - 12 - 03

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                  She was married before the deportation. At the beginning of the persecutions her husband embraced Islam and forced her to follow him. She refused and taking her 2 children left her husband's house.

                  When the deportation started, she was exiled with her children and relatives to Aleppo, where she lived 2 years as a maid-servant in the house of an Armenian priest. At that time her husband came from Marash to Aleppo and took the children away from their mother.

                  Yester was married again to an Armenian who lived in Idlib. After one year her second husband died of tuberculoses. An Arab would marry her by force, she fled with her child, which she had gained from her latter husband and came to Aleppo.

 

Left our care: December 3, 1926. Selfsupporting.

Died from cancer in the summer of 1927.

Daughter: No. 936 – Marie Sandjian, 7