Her father died before the war, Mariam was deported with her mother and a little sister. They reached Surudj. A Kurd dragged her away. The mother run after him, wept and begged him also to take her and her little one. He did so but after three months he married her to a Kurd in a neighbouring village. Poor Mariam was than alone in the Kurd's house. She wanted to see her mother and one day she fled but was taken on the road by an Arab named Ismail. When she grew up she was forced to live with that man. In the same village there was an Armenian boy. He one day fled and reached our colony Tel-Samen. After some time Mariam came near Tel-Abiat there she met with the boy who persuaded her to go to our home in Aleppo. She was sent to us with a motor-car. We are now trying to find her mother.

Left our care: April 9, 1929.