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Assyrian refugees from Iraq receive food rations in Syria, 1936

Place: Khabur · today Syria
Date: 1936

Assyrian men, women and children crouched on the ground around piles of grain as wheat and rice rations are measured out, shortly after they crossed from Iraq into Syria for the Assyrian settlement scheme on the Khabur.

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Internet Archive (The Sphere, 8 August 1936, p. 217, "From Syria and Palestine"; scan from the British Newspaper Archive)

The Sphere

Assyrian refugees from Iraq receive food rations in Syria, 1936

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