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Young boys eating a meal with the Australian flag in the background
Young boys eating a meal with the Australian flag in the background
Identified Child Document
Graduating from the orphanage.
Antilyas Carpenter
Antilyas carpenter working
Map with Antilyas indicated
Near East Relief Map with Antilyas indicated
Lesson on the beach
Boys sitting for a lesson on the beach
Outdoor dining area at Antilyas
Preparing for a meal in the outdoor dining area at Antilyas Orphanage. This Near East Relief orphanage was funded by donations from Australia and New Zealand.
Orphans from Antilyas at summer camp in Ghazir
Large group of orphans from Antilyas, a Near East Relief orphanage and trade school for boys, at summer camp in Ghazir.
High jump at Antilyas
Young athletes at Antilyas Orphanage enjoy a track and field competition
Men with trade school banner
Three men standing in front of a Near East Relief Antilyas Trade School banner
Boys on running track
Boys preparing to run a race at Antilyas Orphanage
Boys dining on the ground, Antilyas
Boys eating a meal on the ground with an Australian flag in the background at Antilyas Orphanage.
Boys sitting on the ground, Antilyas
Boys sitting on the ground at Antilyas Orphanage. Nellie Miller’s original caption reads: “Here are the Antilyas boys. As lovely a bunch of Armenian boys as we have, and all of them such devoted Christians, following their leader Mr. Houyoumdyian, a young man of about 25 years.”
Boys unloading sacks of flour at Antilyas Orphanage
Relief worker Nellie Miller’s original caption reads: “Unloading 500 lb. bags of flour from a truck just arrived from Beirut warehouse. Don’t you love these boys? I do.”
Lesson on the beach at Antilyas
Nellie Miller’s original caption reads: “A class on the beach ot the boys orphanage at Antilyas where there were 1400 boys at one time.” Antilyas produced such well-educated boys that it the trade school began to accept paying students from the community.
Child with two relief workers
Mrs. John H. Knudsen (left) of New Zealand, and Miss Hilda King (right) of Australia with an unnamed child at the gates to Antilyas Orphanage, which opened in 1922. Mrs. Knudsen gave birth to a baby boy in 1923. The Knudsens joked that they weren’t sure of their son’s nationality: he was born to New Zealander parents, delivered by an American nurse, at an Australian orphanage, in a Syrian city under French control.
Boys eating a meal outdoors at Antilyas Orphanage
Boys eating a meal outdoors at Jubeil Orphanage
Arriving at Antilyas
Boys arriving in Antilyas, Syria after evacuation from Ottoman Turkey. The woman in a hat is a relief worker.
Girls working in Antilyas sewing shop
Girls learned plain, fancy, and machine sewing as well as pattern-making. This prepared them to earn a living and to make clothing for their future families.
