His father and brothers were soldiers in the Turkish army, when he was deported with his mother. They reached Urfa. There they were imprisoned in a big building, where thousands of Armenians were held captives. Every day a lot of them died from disease and starvation, and the corpses were not taken away. Kevork's mother could not stand all those sufferings, she also became ill and died. Kevork of course was broken-hearted. He succeeded in slipping out of the house and was erring [round] in the streets. A policeman brought him to a Turkish orphanage. He was illtreated and soon fled. He went to a house asking for bread. The owner, a Turk, took him in and kept him as a servant twelve years. One day some Armenians in Urfa informed him about our reception-house in Aleppo. In the night he fled and reached Arab-pounar from whence by our agent he was sent to us.

Left our care: June 5, 1927. Selfsupporting.