The two girls Lydia and Maritza have already suffered much although they are young. They both stayed in an orphanage in Mezreh for several years. At the time of the deportation they had gone to call on some friends in a village and they were deported with the people there and went on the road to Deir-el-Zor. The caravan reached Mardin there they were taken by some Kurds, who afterwards sold then to some Turks where they remained for years and were treated as slaves. Recently, they succeeded in fleeing to an Armenian priest, who hid them till he was able to send them to our rescue-house in Aleppo.

Lydia found her brother and went to Marseille to stay with him.

Left our care: October 15, 1926. Selfsupporting. Relatives.