Hovsep was exiled with his parents. After walking 14 days, the caravan reached Souroudsh. There the mother died. Hovsep and his father were driven further on. They reached British. There the father disappeared.

                  A Kourd took Hovsep to his house, the poor boy was ill-treated and fled in a house of a Turk.

                  There he became a servant and stayed some years till he one day got an opportunity to flee to our home.

  

Hovsep was very ill, when he arrived here.

Now he has recovered.

 

By an accident he lost the sight on one eye. Several times he had attacks of severe illness, but finally he

left our care, May 4, 1928. Selfsupporting, Shoemaker.

1930 living in a village near Aleppo shoemaker there.