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The patriarch's family at Qudshanis, with Surma and the infant Eshai, 1912

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The patriarch's family at Qudshanis, with Surma and the infant Eshai, 1912

Place
Qudshanis · today Türkiye
Date
1912
Family

Family of Mar Shimun XXI Benyamin outside a stone house at Qudshanis, labelled in Russian. AINA's caption identifies his brother Zaya, Esther d-Beth Matran with baby Rowena, Lady Surma, his brother David holding the infant Eshai (later Patriarch Mar Shimun XXIII), and probably Paulus (later Mar Shimun XXII).

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Source

AINA (Assyrian International News Agency), "Pictures of Assyrian Villages in Turkey in 1912" (scans by George Slyvus; captions by Nicholas al-Jeelo)

Sergei Petrovich Olferiev (1875-1942), Russian vice-consul at Van

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