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Thanks for posting the above, though not easy for us to read, we need to know. Grandfather and the family was spared the above as he was in charge of orphans of a massacre. Diyarbakir, where Medtzhayr, took in the children, over 300, from an earlier killing of our people, The children were fed,loved, and schooled in our silk factory. Together with any moneys the children came in with and money of his own, Medtzbaba sent one by one to Christian countries, France, America. When people were dying from plague, the less educated began to blame the Armenians for using witchcraft to protect themselves from illness, Armenians believe in their God they can't see, it was easy to believe in germs they can't see. Not all non Christians operated from superstition some understood disease, so when a mattress, bed clothing, was dropped by the factory, where a children played, the family thought it to be from a death bed and was intended to sicken the children. A caravan was hired and the children taken, transported to Karpert, where they were made to stay in the ruins outside the city for over a month, when non of the children became sick, they were allowed to inter the city. Father said there were over 300 children, not on became ill.