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Jilu Assyrian orphans breaking stones for the Persian road

Place: Persia · today Iran
Date: 1918

Dozens of Jilu Assyrian orphan children sit on a bank of rubble breaking stones for a new road in Persia, watched by mounted and standing overseers, 1918. Photographed by Ariel Varges.

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Wikimedia Commons (copy of Imperial War Museums Q 25043, Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection)

Ariel Varges · Wikimedia Commons license: Public domain ({{PD-UKGov}})

Jilu Assyrian orphans breaking stones for the Persian road

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