Graduating from the Orphanages

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  • Growing Up

Orphanage graduates joined the Near East League, an alumni group that helped the young adults to socialize and to find work. Graduates often married one another. A thriving Diaspora grew wherever these young survivors settled — the cities of Beirut and Cairo, the farmlands of Macedonia and France, and even the distant United States.