Her father was killed before the Great War. Her poor mother came on the road with her children, two girls and one boy. Her sister helped her to carry the little ones. They reached Mardin. There the sister and the two girls were dragged away by Arabs. The mother with her little boy were driven further on to Mosul. There the boy died.

            Shamir tells us that she remembers that in the night a big man took her away by force. It was a Sheikh, by whom she stayed many years till she was sold to a Kurd. He became a soldier and died. Later Shamir was given to the son of a Hamal. He was very poor and had but one hand. Newly they went with train to Syria. There in the train an Armenian saw her recognized her and told her that her mother was living in Aleppo. When they reached there they succeeded in getting away.

Shamir is now living with her mother.

Left our care: January 30, 1930. With her mother in Aleppo.