[Redcloak]

I wonder how many of the missing Armenian orphans were secretly placed with Armenian families. This happened with my sister's father-in-law.

His family was part of a group being driven out into the desert. They fell behind the main group and his family was killed when Turkish cavalry attacked the stragglers.

He and his brother were huddled together when a mounted soldier attacked with a sword. His brother was beheaded and he received a terrible neck wound and was knocked out by the blow. The volume of blood on the ground convinced the Turkish soldiers that both boys were dead.

He was discovered later that night by a Turkish woman. She sneaked him into her home and nursed him back to health. She then arranged to have him smuggled to Istanbul and then off to the US with an Armenian family.

I don't doubt that the majority of Armenian orphans stayed with their Turkish rescuers; however, if one could have been placed with Armenian parents in this way, then others could have too.

[Serpentor]

From some accounts I have read from the Greek Pontian genocide that happened around the same time as the Armenian one - Cherkessian Muslims (spelling?) - themselves recent converts to Islam as a population - saved many Christian lives. Cherkessian tribesmen lived side by side with Greeks and Armenians for hundreds of years so there was not the hostility and insecurity of being thrown out of their stolen land that the Turk - a recent invader - had.