PhotographAA-0571

Christians from Turkey in a classroom at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1981

Place: Amsterdam
Date: 1981

Men and women from the group of "Christen Turken" who took refuge in the chapel of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, fearing deportation, sit in a lecture room on 2 June 1981. They were likely Syriac Christians from south-eastern Turkey.

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Nationaal Archief, Fotocollectie Anefo (via Wikimedia Commons)

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Christians from Turkey in a classroom at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1981

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