In 1915 , during the Armenian Genocide Yervant Odian was deported from Istanbul to the Syrian desert . He was able to avoid falling victim by becoming a translator for German officials in Deir ez-Zor since he knew French and Turkish . In 1918 , after World War I , he took up the responsibility of collecting orphans left over from deportations in the deserts of Syria and placing them in orphanages . His only real source of income was through his writing . He left Constantinople in 1922 and lived in Bucharest and various location the Near East . Odian spent the last days of his life in Cairo , Egypt where he was buried
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Yervant Odian