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Refugee children on Christmas Day 1915, Urmia

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Refugee children on Christmas Day 1915, Urmia

Place
Urmia · today Iran
Date
1915
SayfoWorld War

A crowd of refugee children in headscarves and coats, captioned as wearing clothing just given to them on Christmas Day 1915 by Madame Nikitine, wife of the Russian consul at Urumia. Plate from the 1916 pamphlet "The Pitiful Plight of the Assyrian Christians in Persia and Kurdistan."

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Source

Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books

Rockwell, William Walker (New York: American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief) · The books in this collection are in the public domain and are free to use and reuse.

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