PhotographAA-0592

Assyrian refugee family from Iraq at home in Manurewa, Auckland, 1994

Place

Auckland

Date

1994

The Nissan family, Assyrian refugees from Iraq, photographed around a table in their Manurewa home in September 1994. The caption names them clockwise from front as Sankhyro, Asmir, Khazo, Naia, Amiro, Jamie, Edmon, Ben and Iyien Nissan, and says they arrived in Auckland three years earlier with only the clothes on their backs.