A priest and deacons in white vestments read at the lectern of the Syriac Orthodox church in Hengelo, under a chandelier and processional cross. Anefo photographed the service on 15 January 1981, when about 150 people gathered in the church to support a man and his wife whose asylum request had been refused.

Syriac Orthodox priest celebrating the liturgy in Hengelo, 1981

Newspaper notice headed "Died for His Country" reporting that Mr. and Mrs. Elias Backus of 1461 York Street were informed on 17 October that their son Corporal Joseph Backus was killed in action on 6 October 1944, with details of his enlistment and family.

"Died for His Country": newspaper notice of Cpl. Joseph Backus, 1944

Newspaper notice headed "Cpl. Joseph Backus" reporting that the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elias Backus of North Battleford was killed in action on 6 October 1944, born in Marseille in 1923 and brought to Canada as an infant.

Newspaper notice of the death of Cpl. Joseph Backus, 1944

Page 24 of Nineveh Magazine (1981, vol. 4, no. 1) with the photograph of the Tamrazov brothers, Davidov and Ishakov and a short article naming Assyrians who held the rank of general in the Soviet Army, translated from a book by K.P. Matveev (Bar-Mattai).

Nineveh Magazine page on three Assyrian generals in the Soviet army

A long line of Iraq Levies with fixed bayonets inspected by a mounted British officer at Hinaidi Camp near Baghdad. The Sphere notes the force guarded the RAF bases and was made up of Assyrians, Arabs and Kurds; Dutch papers printing the same photo called them Assyrian soldiers.

Iraq Levies on parade at Hinaidi Camp, Baghdad, 1934

A page of photographs from the Assyrian settlement on the Khabur in north-eastern Syria, where refugees from the 1933 massacres in Iraq were provisionally housed: a village of adobe beehive houses, water-wheels (norias), Assyrians working with tractors, two tribal chiefs and a group receiving clothing. The text describes the Archbishop of Canterbury's national appeal for a permanent settlement in the Ghab.

"Assyrians still homeless": the Khabur settlement in the Illustrated London News, 1936

Front page of the Illustrated London News of 26 August 1933 with a full-length photograph of the young Patriarch Mar Eshai Shimun XXI in cassock and pectoral cross. The caption reports his deportation from Baghdad by air to Cyprus after he refused to sign a declaration of loyalty, and the killing of Assyrians in the events that followed.

Patriarch Mar Shimun on the front page of the Illustrated London News, 1933

A front page of Zahrire d-Bahra ("Rays of Light"), the newspaper of the Urmia mission station printed in Syriac script, with its rising-sun masthead. From a bound volume of 1897-1900 issues.

Front page of Zahrire d-Bahra (Rays of Light), Urmia, 1900

Masthead and front page of Zahrire d-Bahra ('Rays of Light'), the Syriac-script newspaper printed at Urmia from 1849, with a rising-sun masthead and three columns of text. Commons dates it 1849, but the date line on this issue appears to read 1892.

Front page of Zahrire d-Bahra, the Urmia Assyrian newspaper

Refugee girls from the Kurdistan mountains

Jilu Assyrian mother carrying her child on her back

"Americans of Assyrian lineage", group portrait published 1921

Assyro-Chaldean delegation to the Paris Peace Conference

Assyrian refugees moving to a new village, Jazira, 1939

Christian women of Koi Sanjaq, about 1919

Asleh Qambar and her son Iskhaq, Urmia, about 1900

Assyrian orphanage and school in Beirut

Sister of the Nestorian Patriarch with family, Baqubah

Consecration of the Virgin Mary church in Paramus, 1968

Karima, aged 13, from Naayem's account of the massacres

Map of a proposed Nestorian (Assyrian) enclave north of Mosul, about 1920

Assyrian National School Association memorial dinner programme, 1937

Kala Ismail Agha, near the site of a massacre

Patriarch Ignatius Elias III of the Syriac Orthodox Church, about 1924

Monk before the bishop's tower of Mor Yuhanon Tayoyo, 1909

A Nestorian (Assyrian) mother and her little girl, 1843 lithograph

Nun with a gospel at the Church of the Virgin, Hah, 1909

Ordination certificate of Nestoris Gewargis Malik

Harput Assyrians of Worcester honour Lady Surma, 4 July 1926

Assyrian workers at the Ytong factory, Kumla

Jacobite (Syriac Orthodox) women drawing water at Midyat, Tur Abdin

Ancient Nestorian church at Mar Sergis and Mart Mariam, Urmia

Syriac family of Harput before the Sayfo

Bishop Mar Zaya Sargis of Jilu with his infant nephew Isho, 1912

Syriac engagement in the association hall, Landskrona

Column of refugees on the flight from Urmia, 1918

Assyrian boy with a stick

Faces, places & memories of the Assyrian people.