Aleppo, France, and New Britain: The Garabedians
While Toros was in America, Dirouhi stayed in Armenia from 1915 to 1922, moving from town to town and hiding until the genocide was over. In 1922, she, along with her two children, her two nephews, and another nephew of Dirouhi’s who had two children of his own, traveled from Harpoot to Aleppo, Syria, where they stayed in a refugee camp. Jennie is unsure of how they made this journey.
Meanwhile, Toros was trying to find out anything he could about his wife and children in Armenia. In 1924, he traveled back to the old country, asking around to find out what had happened to the people from Harpoot. Eventually, he made contact with Dirouhi, and was able to communicate with her enough to get her to Marseille, then to Cherbourg, and finally to Ellis Island. Jennie’s older brother was not able to travel with them, because he was too old to be included under his father's citizenship, so he stayed in Marseille with his cousins for another four years before finally joining his parents and siblings in New Britain, CT.