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The Malke family of Harput, before 1915

Place: Harput · today Türkiye
Date: 1910s

Studio group portrait of the Assyrian (Syriac) Malke family of Harput, in European and Ottoman dress. The source says Malke, seated front right, later died in the 1915 genocide.

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Wikimedia Commons (from Houshamadyan, Bossieremantarian collection)

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The Malke family of Harput, before 1915

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