Previously we left Daniel learning to live with ‘Tyfoid fever’ FROM DANIEL’S DIARY 59- ‘I become “Number 10”. ‘In 1918 the British entered Aintab and one of the first things they did was to collect into an orphanage the Armenian children who were in Moslem ho
PREVIOUSLY we left 7 year-old Daniel dealing with theft. FROM DANIEL’S DIARY 56- Theft the rule of the bakery. ‘There were many accomplished ways and methods of stealing from our customers. This was one fact that justified bakery workers to boast of being “next to the worst peop
Previously we left Daniel dealing with his master’s greediness FROM DANIEL’S DIARY 53 – Starving deportees on the sidewalks of Aintab The famine in Turkey 1916-1917 was bad. Probably the crop was poor but also the army took whatever was produced and a lot of wheat and other
Previously we left Daniel secretly selling bread to starving children against the wishes of his master. FROM DANIEL’S DIARY 50- ‘The unparalleled greed of my master’ ‘There are many episodes confirming the heartlessness of my master. Here is one. One afternoon during the famine, a
Previously we left Daniel becoming a ‘member of the Barmaksiz family’ FROM DANIEL’S DIARY 47- ‘I work in the bakery and sleep in the kitchen’. ‘During summer months, like the rest of the family, I slept in the yard, outdoors, but when winter came the rest of the f
Previously we left Daniel adopted for the 2nd time FROM DANIEL’S DIARY 44- ‘Armenian Homes in Aintab in 1916’. ‘I was right to wonder about Armenians having homes in Aintab. Later on I learned how it had happened. On orders from Constantinople (Minister of Interior Talaat) all Ain
PREVIOUSLY we left Daniel adopted by a Turkish family. FROM DANIEL’S DIARY 40- ‘I am not wanted’. ‘Arsho described my situation as follows, Ahmed Agha had no child and therefore, wanted to adopt me, but his wife had not yet given up hope of having one and hence did not
PREVIOUSLY we left Daniel and his mum deported for the 2nd time. FROM DANIEL’S DIARY 37- ‘In the “Black Hole” of Aintab’ There were about 30 of us, I think all of us were boys. We were marched to Aintab about 10 km from the quarry, and enclosed in a room about 5 meters [
PREVIOUSLY we left Daniel dragging his mum after being beaten FROM DANIEL’S DIARY. 34- Forty days in the quarry. From Marash the people were driven into the Syrian desert, where places like Rakka, Mashench and Der-Zor (Syria) on the Euphrates became great centers of great massacres. Mother
PREVIOUSLY we left Daniel with a new pair of shoes every night FROM DANIEL’S DIARY 30- ‘Dangers of being late to start the daily journey’ ‘Walking all day and sometimes at night, with very little food, exhausted us so completely that once we put our heads down on the e
