PhotographAA-0593

Assyrian refugee Samira Tollo with a volunteer tutor in Wellington, 1989

Place: Wellington
Date: 1989

Volunteer home tutor Andrea Hall and her daughter Vanessa with Assyrian refugee Samira Tollo. Te Ara says the volunteer helped Samir Sada's family, Assyrian Christians from Iraq, settle in Wellington, and that Samira was his mother-in-law.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Dominion Post Collection, Evening Post)

Mark Round, Evening Post

Assyrian refugee Samira Tollo with a volunteer tutor in Wellington, 1989

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