Dikranouhi was deported with her parents, her two brothers and one sister to Ras-el-Ain. Ras-el-Ain was a well-known place for them as thousands of their people had been massacred their. After they had lived seven months in that plain having no roof over them, they were sent further on into the desert in order to be finally massacred by the Arabs and the Turkish gendarms. 

            On their way some Arabs came and selected some of the nice looking girls among them was Dikranouhi. She was dragged away from her parents and brought to a village named "Khers". Soon the Arabs went away and came home late in the evening showing her their blood covered daggers and hands: "We have killed your parents," they said and threw themselves on the Armenian girls and violated them. Dikranouhi lived seven months in the house of the murderer of her parents but later on she fled to Mardin. She knew that some of her companions have been killed because they refused to become Muslims. 

            She fled with four Armenians girls, all of them were caught and arrested only Dikranouhi was released. For several months she worked in different houses but finally she was obliged to marry a Turk in this town. She was too much exposed and so she thought it would be better to become the wife of one then to be the wife of who knows how many. Dikranouhi had two children with her Turkish husband. Lately he should become a soldier so he fled to Syria. Once in Syrian territory Dikranouhi fled from him and came with her two children to us.

Left our care: May 15, 1928. Living with relatives in Aleppo.