PhotographAA-0349

"Let us stay": Christian refugees in the Grote Kerk, Almelo, 1979

Place: Almelo · today Netherlands
Date: 1979

Men hold a hand-lettered sign reading "Laat ons blijven" (Let us stay) inside the Grote Kerk in Almelo on 3 September 1979, where Christians from Turkey sought refuge from deportation; very likely Syriac Orthodox.

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Nationaal Archief, Fotocollectie Anefo (via Wikimedia Commons)

Hans van Dijk / Anefo · CC0 (Nationaal Archief, Fotocollectie Anefo).

"Let us stay": Christian refugees in the Grote Kerk, Almelo, 1979

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