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Mar Eshai Shimun's signed Assyrian National Petition, San Francisco, 1945

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Mar Eshai Shimun's signed Assyrian National Petition, San Francisco, 1945

Place
San Francisco · today United States
Date
1945
DocumentClergyDiaspora

Final page of the Assyrian National Petition to the World Security Conference (the United Nations founding conference) at San Francisco, dated 7 May 1945, signed "Eshai Shimun" in English and Syriac as Catholicos Patriarch of the Church of the East and the Assyrian Nation. The text notes that Assyrians had settled in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Russia, the United States and elsewhere, and asks for a home where they could live free from want and fear.

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Source

Internet Archive (Beth Mardutho Library, Malphono George Anton Kiraz Collection)

Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII; Kimball Press, Fair Lawn, N.J. (printer)

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