The father of the 2 children was killed in his native town in 1922 during the warfare between the French and the Turks. A Turk took the mother and the children to his house with the intention of making the widow his wife, but she succeeded in fleeing together with the Christian population, when they left the city. As however it was in the middle of the winter, she left her children with the Turk that they should not perish in the snow.

                  She herself arrived in Aleppo after having endured much hardship and was received into the house of her brother, but she was now separated from her children and did not know how to get them back. Finally we were informed and we succeeded in laying hold on them by means of a recompense to the Turk, who had kept them. They were received into the house of the uncle.

 

 

Left our care: April 23, 1926. Relatives, aunt Aleppo.

 

Brother of No: 971 Manug, 6.