The Assyrian genocide, known as the Seyfo, has been included in a Dutch history textbook used in secondary education, marking a significant development in efforts to bring the history of the 1915 genocide into Dutch classrooms.
In the autumn of 1915, as the Ottoman Empire was consumed by the fires of the Great War, a small hilltop town in the Tur Abdin region became the stage for one of the most remarkable military holdouts in modern history.
Dr. Matthias Binder, a German scholar, has presented one of the most comprehensive academic studies to date on the Seyfo Genocide, examining how Assyrian survivors and their descendants used faith to interpret trauma, preserve identity, and confront the long aftermath of genocide.
