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Assyrian refugees receiving clothing on the Khabur, 1936

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Assyrian refugees receiving clothing on the Khabur, 1936

Place: Khabur · today Syria
Date: 1936

Refugees Family

Assyrian women, children and a few men seated on the ground beside bundles of clothing in the Khabur area of Syria, where survivors of the 1933 massacres in Iraq were resettled. The Illustrated London News captioned it as the work of the Assyrian Settlement National Appeal.

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Source

Internet Archive (The Illustrated London News, 11 April 1936, p. 638)

The Illustrated London News

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