PhotographAA-0248

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

Date: 1910s

Full-length portrait of Karima, captioned as aged 13, standing barefoot in a headscarf, a long wrap and a checked skirt. She appears in Naayem's account of the 1915 massacres of Assyro-Chaldean Christians, likely as a survivor.

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Naayem, Shall This Nation Die? (1921), via Internet Archive

Joseph Naayem (author); photographer not named · Published 1921 in New York (Chaldean Rescue); public domain in the United States.

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

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