At the time of the deportations, Serop was a small boy. His father had disappeared from the town. Some people said he fled, others affirmed that he was killed in the prison. His mother however, was killed in a most cruel way because she did not want to marry a Turk. However, Serop was deported with several hundred Armenian women and children to a little town called Bolint. This village was the estate of a wealthy Kurd named Hadji Mohammed, who had already taken hundreds of Armenians to his village. They had to work and they were considered more or less as his slaves, but after all, their life was not in danger. After the Armistice most of them left the village in order to search their deported relatives. Serop thought that he had non and so he remained there. Lately an Armenian brought news that his father was living in Beirut. Serop immediately left the Kurd's village and travelled towards the Syrian frontier. After a tiresome wandering of several days he reached Hassitshe and our agent, who sent him right toour Rescue-Home.

Left our care: August 7, 1927. Selfsupporting.