Mariam's husband went to America before the war. She herself was deported with her parents and 2 children. The caravan reached Osmania. There her father was killed. They went further on and came near Deir-el-Zor. Mariam's mother and little ones became ill and died.

                  One day Mariam was taken by an Arab and she was forced to marry him. After 11 years she succeeded in fleeing to us.

Mariam has had a letter from her relatives in America. One of her brothers wants her very much. Mariam's husband is also in America 4 years ago he came to Syria trying to find his wife, yet in vain, and thinking her dead he married again. It makes Mariam's heart ache.

Mariam is legally divorced and married to an Armenian in Aleppo.

                                                      April 14, 1928