 When the Islamic State arrived in Mosul on the night of August 6-7, 2014, Najeeb Moussa Michaeel fled to Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, taking about 800 manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 19th century, which he was transporting from Qaraqosh to Mosul.During his period of refuge, he digitized these manuscripts and helped Christian refugees in the Nineveh Plain.The saved documents were later exhibited at the National Archives and the Arab World Institute in Paris, as well as in Italy.