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

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Dr. Abraham K. Yoosuf (1866–1924), a major in the United States Army, in uniform and peaked cap. He was a member of the Assyrian American delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference; the uniform suggests a date around the First World War.

Dr. Abraham K. Yoosuf in US Army uniform

Malik Khalil, secretary of the Assyrian delegation to the League of Nations, seated in embroidered Assyrian national costume with a head-cloth. The Amsterdam paper printed it with an interview about the plight of the Assyrian Christians in the Caucasus and Mosul.

Malik Khalil of the Assyrian delegation to the League of Nations, 1925

"Carte ethnographique et politique de la nation assyro-chaldéenne": the Assyro-Chaldean delegation's map of a proposed Assyrian homeland from the Mediterranean to Persia and the Gulf, presented at the Paris Peace Conference in October 1919.

Assyro-Chaldean delegation map presented at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919

Two men from the group of "Christen Turken" present a petition, with what appears to be a small model of a church, to an official of the Ministry of Justice (named in the caption as Nawijnen; a related IISH caption names Nawijn, head of asylum affairs). Demonstrators and a banner fill the background.

Petition for asylum handed to the Ministry of Justice, The Hague, 1981

Children in traditional costume stand at the front of a demonstration by the group of "Christen Turken" from the Vrije Universiteit at the Ministry of Justice in The Hague, 2 July 1981. Behind them a banner reads "Geef ons nu een thuis" (Give us a home now).

Children of Christians from Turkey demonstrate for asylum in The Hague, 1981

Men, women and children of the Worcester Assyrian community gather in the street with American flags, the old Assyrian tricolour and a sign reading "Sons of Assyria" on 4 July 1922. The source names Dr. Abraham K. Yousef among them; the man in military uniform beside the flag is possibly him. The Commons copy notes the group came from Tur Abdin, Harput and Diyarbakir.

Sons of Assyria on the Fourth of July in Worcester, 1922

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.