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

Ten young men in "A.N.A." jerseys pose in a studio, one holding a trophy and another a ball marked 1938. The team was formed by the Assyrian Youth Organization in Chicago.

Assyrian youth basketball team in Chicago, 1938

A football team of young men from Midyat in striped and dark-and-light shirts, standing and kneeling with a ball before a stone wall. The archive names the players, among them Shibo Sedde-Ediz, Lahdo Antar-Cakir, Denho Rhavi Akbas and Melek Bisse.

Syriac football team of Midyat, 1933

Three rows of athletes of the Assyrian Levies sports club pose behind a table of trophies marked "Depot Athletics 1954": the athletics team seated in front, the tug-of-war team in the middle and the marathon runners standing in checked shirts at the back. The caption names an English officer seated in the middle of the front row, with Odisho B'Malik Khiyo to his right. Likely at RAF Habbaniya, the Levies depot.

Assyrian Levies sports club teams with trophies, 1954

The footballer Ammo Baba, the Assyrian who became Iraq's star forward, is carried shoulder-high through a dense, cheering crowd. The Arabic caption on Commons says this was after a 4-1 win over the Czechoslovak side Trenčín at the Scouts Stadium in Baghdad on 26 January 1964.

Ammo Baba carried by the crowd after a win in Baghdad, 1964

Men in shirtsleeves posed with a trophy cup. The handwritten dedication on the back names sports officials of Aleppo, including the vice-president of Al-Shahbaa club and Yousef Mukhtar, is dated June 1961 and stamped Photo Dadour, Alep. From the archive of Dr Farid Malki Asaad.

Syriac sports officials of Aleppo with a trophy, June 1961

Young players in matching vests with their coach and a ball; the source identifies them as one of the community's earliest sports groups, the "Club of the Two Rivers" (Hudro d-Beth Nahrin).

Syriac youth basketball team of Qamishli, 1940

The Al-Rafidain Club team in striped shirts posing on the pitch of the municipal stadium in Qamishli during a match, with spectators behind.

Al-Rafidain Club football team at the Qamishli stadium, 1958

The opening of the new headquarters of the Al-Shahbaa Sports Club, the Syriac club of Aleppo, on 16 July 1967, under the patronage of Bishop Dionysius Georges Behnam, with clergy and members.

Bishop Dionysius Georges Behnam opens the Al-Shahbaa Sports Club, Aleppo, 1967

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.