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Assyrian refugee children on the Khabur, 1935

Place: Khabur · today Syria
Date: 1935

About twenty Assyrian boys in caps and patched clothes crowded together for the camera at the new settlements on the Upper Khabur in French-mandated Syria, where refugees from the 1933 massacres in Iraq were being resettled.

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Internet Archive (The Sphere, 27 July 1935, p. 139, "The Assyrian Christians find a permanent home"; scan from the British Newspaper Archive)

The Sphere

Assyrian refugee children on the Khabur, 1935

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