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it's two in the morning and when chicago is getting ready to go to iraq. he's a jewish north london with a point to prove. who is going to even believe that there were jews in iraq. i can no longer carry on living as if nothing else happened to tell my son that he was born in finchley and this was where his as a story started. we have gotten possible off iraq and i will not let go.

down i don't want to buy a house north of baghdad. it's so that he can say the iraqi jews still have a stake in their home in. the snow as a movie like this is being taken as long as our house is being told the jews of iraq. we are still there. and that gives me the sense of belonging. for decades baghdad has been violent. and the last place most people would want to call home especially the jews. but it wasn't always so moved. back not diamond got no further still i think i'm a lucky guy i got

a son and family of mine. i first came across the jews of baghdad when i was asked to catalog an archive it belonged to the family of david dunn goal. when david's father was born there were one hundred forty thousand jews in baghdad . league they made up nearly half the city. worldview people in baghdad now remember them. through the houses and old synagogues are everywhere. edwin has arrived in baghdad looking for his roots. i feel. i was finished with this place. i always any thought was right. unfinished business here. because when i tell people.

on the road are you kidding are you crazy. fyi. i feel. bad for our. edwin was he just being flowery. iraqi jews are the ones unsung. the ones who were captured and taken slaves. the ones who sat by the waters of babylon there we sat down and wept when we remembered son. they stayed and wrote the great book of jewish law the babylonian talmud. they were below the muslims in society but they ran their own a says as babylon became mesopotamia and as mesopotamia became iraq. back in

london i went to meet david van gogh's us. they were born on the banks of the tigris when iraq was ruled by the british. now alina dorrien live in flats one above the other if this is my father's the chief of iraq. it was hanging i was sitting here only in baghdad to show that life was good. this. in the. face. his speech was that. we don't have religion it's we are all iraqis jews muslims and christians were all iraqis it was a good time it was very it was planted. this paradise was created by the british who took part in one nine hundred seventeen.

this little boy being pulled along in a to a british tongue is it means constant david. on his father's farm near the town of . ended with the world. by a father and the relation with their fits right i mean diverted you. to believe . they were like a brother but i say like a brother like a brother i mean they are there to do all we want to their whole we were just like part of one house and my father. we were speaking english there were the rule of. if you are in line with the british the levee can be that the north will iraq you jews were in line with the british i met saleem fertile in israel. many others like me the poor class thought the british who

are robbing our resources. our are you and you you are are trying to tell us what to do we don't want any forty nine ers here we want to own ourselves by ourselves the lot into fear you have nothing to go. but when british rule ended in one thousand nine hundred two the oilman didn't go home. the i am i did king of this on their country when directors of the air have to credit him company by shama shakes give the authentic that touch . not to the pump station have been times i like it was independents. on terms i would say. their reality lost. wealth while the government. the british. but the

british were not the only ones after iraqi oil. as disaffection with the british grew the germans promoted hitler as a liberator. and in one thousand nine hundred eighty three one camp was translated into arabic. i met sure menasha a he was a child in basra. there was a famous say. good in the sky. on the ground this year whether i missed a lovely summer or feel of a vehicle over. it sounds that the bomb. the nazis key arab supporter the grand mufti of jerusalem came to baghdad in one

thousand thirty nine. the jews did not understand what happened in iraq. with the mufti under the influence of the nicest during the thirty years they are in danger to his heart and then just. to move to moved into this house on the banks of the tigris in baghdad next door to david's family the dang good news. in early one nine hundred forty one the move to hit. your excellences great fear of. the palestinian problem has united all the arab states and the mutual hatred of the english and the jews. that ups are willing to shed their blood in the holy war and the oil flow for england. great futa

my wishes for a long life and chinese victory. the public mood in iraq turned against the monarchy and in much nine hundred forty one the region fled with the boy king leaving iraq to the fascists and its oil to the germans. once again the british invaded to. do nothing about the first came over a little bit of an off related the fall of the it all. ended up to that effect on the rebels although followed over. the nationalist or defeated completely by the end of may. they have fessed patients who is the object that can be a victim for this if reservation the truce. i

met just their own spin machine television. she was living in the suburbs and her family didn't realize anything was wrong my grandfather went shopping he was beaten very badly they called him you know our jewish you know our english and he was beaten and he was bleeding all over. that night a riot started. in jerusalem i found early i mean he was in the center of baghdad the muslims evaded the jewish quarter we knew of this way or the other bill will kill jews. all night we were up there on the roof. frightened waiting for something bad to happen they were banging on doors and breaking people

shouting crying. we heard the crowd coming on the stairs my father know it to the neighbors they said please give us every few. called his god and they started to cross us to the other side. my uncle. who was a slaughter i think is part of the business both of them they live together that type of. the class where they stopped the process and took which was outside and they killed our neighbors who were muslims. and to my mother. and her family if we were very good friends. she's a breastfed me. and god bless her clearly i have been. came to our house

strong for the big one they should stick to their. own ship the fifty that asked for three days. she saved our life. in. after nine hundred forty one with the money to keep back in place iraq was a piece for the rest of the war. the mostly fled and went to bali and. the dangle was brought the house where he lived and the kids got to play in the most he's got. the mohawk he's touched them. there were parties every night the community was living in a bubble. they were not touched by the holocaust and they were living as if there was no war and nothing has happened much. so my father was very happy to to

to stay on and back that. david should mashes davydenko as neighbor in london as he was in baghdad when they were children. there's always hope that a bad episode was a one off and it won't repeat itself. with a certain amount of wishful thinking but. the truth and nothing. but the less well off jews were worried. they saw the right during the war as a warning. her rally joined a secret cell. phone rude. there are those who are bikini to bits to hone color you didn't begin. a new but no more

lawyer. law sort of call today though if you're dark like it's a sin for washington. today he teaches kids at the babylonian museum in tel aviv and he's bringing his replica guns to tell them about how scientists working for the creation of israel came to trade them in fact out why you didn't tell a lot more shoe industry leaders. to give him course if you. are thomas kushal how to. cook. you should rush how much of. the kenyan pact i design instance were essential to the jewish leader david ben-gurion. he was building his new country and he wanted

a million immigrants to people it and to defend it. of the hope. out of who would bring bring the jews here. because we don't want to happen tomorrow today i know you can bring them so it's bring the kids. around spend most shame decided to learn hebrew the choice nine which is the new state i think of all the people that came to study with me. we went far far away in the desert somewhere. near the river or somewhere better far nobody lives there nobody not a soul of the. first lady of the world that. we had pickled eggs. they were talking about this or it was like the end like eden but all

the movie that so everybody was interested though. in may nine hundred forty eight palestine was partitioned to make way for the new jewish homeland israel. the dream came true that the zionists. and a nightmare began for the jews still living in the ira. from egypt from france jordan and from the north with support of other arab states palestine is invaded as the united nations looked for ways to stop the war. raging erupted out of palestine and ignited in the streets of iraq. the fierce the tough and when israel won the war the iraqi

government of the time most severely against the jews over there were a very difficult situation getting nine hundred fifty. jews were fired from government jobs and the people boycotted the shops. jews closed their businesses they do not bear to go to the streets. they hang good jewish people for the zionism and their land overthrew for communism. so everyone and still there was no way for us to leave their. money open the door was. a deal funded by american scientists with sweetness for the prime in a. his family allowed for the jews to renounce their iraqi citizenship and leave.

at first the take up was slow. some people didn't want to go they had their jobs and their money and their houses. my parents were not the ins they were jews very. they have all the whatever it you used to do or holidays and all and then the synagogue there were not really. but then a series of bombs went off in jewish district of baghdad although the government accused and then hind to zionists for doing it in order to drive in the creation. no one believed them now they were afraid or they are throwing bombs in the synagogue so we have to move so they went to register all of than seven thousand

when the ridges there in the synagogue so we were about two hundred twenty thousand . the minute they close the list of all those who wanted to go jerusalem they confiscated all the money in the banks or what you had you can't sell anything you can sell your house you can sell not even a brand. and we left iraq with them pounds. throughout the summer of one nine hundred fifty one planes flew continuously from baghdad to tell of the. until one hundred twenty thousand iraqi jews were carried away. but the welcome wasn't what they were expecting. looking like creatures from the arabian night it's a colorful sight but scarcely

a pretty one. a sort of weird costume ball on poles and front of you musing bizarre but. it was. they conceived of the people who have no cause to be god does not exist the our language is the language of the enemy and they define god of june. black people. move through or some of these people may have been well to do or even well things but you know the until now for they are all pretty much. basically the message just came back guys don't rush for god's sake we rush to this place and we sitting in tents with a russian. in

one nine hundred fifty one life for edmonds family under the monarchy was comfortable. to leave. along with seven thousand when. they stayed on. edwin has left the safety of the hotel to look for his childhood home now sandwiched between the notoriously violent such a city and the river. the area is controlled by a shia militia. the taxi driver is nervous about a quarter of a fortune. for seven mosques which are a lot of what. they were shot early on it will be. odd if it has had a foot in the areas. that got them put them cut them up we have got. them adoption of other be able to. be other you know how that doesn't require.

a lot of bit other bits you know the. well the whole group will go. oh my god. oh my god the solution. to the exploited way way way way. that would be not a jew deed paul they got it how do you how difficult we know but i feel the. i think i would be out of by sheer numbers. why do you think you always have enough of a mark on the boat. well i would. want to. when i saw the house in perth. that you have to leave your old home. like a criminal. is difficult to put myself into the cauldron of boiling

notions. on the jew who always lived here. it's a kind of a feeling of belonging. but there's just other mob out of them going about but can they didn't change an issue. how death could be that a goof but it left a lot of on the other shot of him in him she beat you almost have it with his heart and of the heart and all of her love about that guy but that got to do we wouldn't she. who has not edwin is still in his old neighborhood trying to find his family synagogue it's called me a twig. and it's now the only maintained synagogue in iraq. that it took a dump a. man twenty

is still standing. when saddam hussein needed to please the americans hearing street to be preserved. but it's too dangerous for jews to actually worship. baghdad was the center of the jewish world for over fifteen hundred years. they were both in color moved from above you know in a cupboard. why has this is put so much into iraq. can see it. with the fact that my grandfather he's buried here. and that we've abandoned him and we just say goodbye but. could play minutes we. could buy everything. we don't know and even look

back. while the killings rose egyptian president he makes a public appearance following caesar on the same. scene by the first when soonest took place my father could see that it was a momentous thing happening in the middle east. it was the first time that nationalism assisted itself i remember he has to listen to news day and night he couldn't get away from it one minute the women i mean probably david douglas love the city of my mother who are not happy. you could feel a kind of anxiety behind the sort of facade of easygoing life.

our house was on the riverfront and the royal palace was on the other side we work up to the sound of gunfire. it must have been a. sort of first light. the radio came on announcing the army had taken over. two years after series in one nine hundred fifty eight the monarchy in iraq was overthrown in a leftwing military coup. it had lasted thirty seven years. and reassign just opposed it has led to and the republican rebels have offered ten

thousand pounds for his arrest. he says damn the new one thing is a victim and is doable. this is i became qassam he was the leader of the revolt the idea that the king should be replaced by a republic was something strange to us and quite bewildering in some ways even though we knew very little about politics we knew something cataclysmic was happening. i was three years old when the coup happened everybody rushed to the balcony to watch. the prime minister for russia and the east side they tied his body to a car and just the usual. revenge would pull his body through the streets on. back that i remember my mother my grandmother screaming as the as the body was passed through off. under me squeezing between them to see what what was

the commotion. king faisal the second in the royal family were gunned down. and the crown prince's mutilated body was displayed on the walls of the ministry of defense. in one nine hundred fifty nine david parents finally made the decision to leave iraq we came to england when we had finally got our entry permit. my father had hoped to make his life in the land his forefathers it was set. i never went back. after the revolution we had to bring it down we didn't want anybody to come and see we have the king and on the war. live with it down when we're at it. and put it away in a store rule. two thousand jews stayed after the revolution

. the first six months we thought we are going to be calm when east. now even want to learn about communism with us we're out of stuff we are going to be probably. the david kalash how did dealership selling finance the american cars we have what about seventy or eighty dollars. when the revolution came in we thought nobody would dare to write in a big car you want to go in this war or otherwise there would kill you. you corrode really be in six months the government the open embassies of the east russia embassy. china and these people they are starving for america's guard.

was going in the room with every. street agent because of the short of revolution. in one nine hundred sixty three with the tacit support of the cia kasem was killed in another coup by the baath party who included some old wartime fascists and a young officer saddam hussein. israel was back as an issue. and within weeks jewish passports were taken away. i was lucky i was really lucky. i left. in march to have a modest id sixty seven. everything changed in

sixty seven when the six day war started. to clear remember coming home from school my mum picked us up. by look at her face. the traffic was stopped by police. convoy with lots of soldiers holding their guns. iran was one of five states fighting his trail in the six day war in june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. i remember my brother distinctly saying you know this is very bad for us if israelis win then they're going to come back and take their revenge on us and israelis know as well we're all going to us anyway. the israelis won. and the consequences were immediate for the two thousand jews still living in baghdad. people from the post office locked on the door i opened the door myself of the house where the the car phones on and i just took them they pulled

the cords from the war and took all the instruments and they said i'm sorry but rules are rules jews are not allowed anymore the use of the telephone. my mother was placed immediately on the house to house arrest luckily she knew what the chief inspector of police in baghdad. protected her. there was a lot of help from our muslim friends. in early one nine hundred sixty nine the path leadership laid on an event in response to the six day war and its aftermath saddam hussein now deputy leader was given the job of turning it into a national festival they rounded out a number of people mostly jews and they accuse them of being spies for israel and

for the west when they said spies i remember my dad's complection chain he. was suddenly said. that doesn't sound good he knew that there probably meant the jews. show trial of the suspects was mounted in january. on the day of the trial i remember we were petrified all of us. suddenly we see that on television the doorbell rings and when the doorbell rings in the middle of the night even of a for be for everybody look at the evening and for everybody the door and there is no reason for their doorbell to ring or less it's trouble that you're enough it was saying help they've taken either well. they had come to ask you to check. no matter what we tried what or how we tried

we could not find out where he was. for me it was like almost the end of the world. if you time or in small groups another ninety jewish men from their families. then came music danny's uncle. it was a notice like one of those adverts you sell an apartment on the fifth side call of . his partner were found guilty yesterday of a spy and they will be hanged to morrow morning. that was my turning point takers. it was only one thought which is the same thing that everybody had just one thousand left let's get out jews were not

allowed to have possible so they can leave the country. so there was no other option just. seventy seventy one that year at school was the year you're going to school every morning you count and you look around who is left in your classroom. my mother we had an idea that sure was planning to run away. but not at all the venture is for some. very secure she tried to keep myself occupied. she was making those walk he men and women in customs. plans were to go on holiday such to northern iraq it's beautiful it's lovely. and. once we're in the kurdish areas we're pretty much safe because they didn't

have any animosity towards us. we knew that this was a proper way to escape. over seventy one my father brought the from any together and told us that. in two hours we depart the house wherever. we have to go through checkpoints you tried to be cool. pretending that your holiday be jolly and you're looking at around that we're all sisters or younger to a grandmother who was praying about it really. is it possible this soldier i would suspect he has a family that looks like you know jewish they look frightened.

so when we crossed the border between arab iraq and kurdish iraq and the guy turned around and said you're ok no you've made it. it was just it's was amazing we knew that we we were free and we were just ecstatic. did used to me. unity was now down to a few hundred. the baath party's attention drifted elsewhere. eleven years after aliens passport had been taken away her application for a new one suddenly went through. its work clothes into we had less suitcases with us where went to a friend's house and the next morning we're length of the f.

lot and left. eighteen arrived in london on the eighteenth of december nine hundred seventy four leaving two hundred eighty jews in baghdad. once you leave the country and don't try to get it three months and all your property is confiscated. and you do this yes ladies your nationality and what's considered the off here. in two thousand and three iraq was once again invaded. and i'm doing american airlines wanted to be rid of saddam hussein. i'm going to be to edwin in northern iraq he's buying his house and have built the

capital of the kurdish area. he wanted to join the last five to still living in baghdad but it's too dangerous that. which is not to stay at bayless safe islamic states frontline is just a short drive from met bill city center. half. surprised by the. problem of real close. i bought this house a step in my dream. you know what maybe just maybe in thirty forty fifty sixty years torah jews would

reconnect with their both place. you could die with me but if i don't see that my dream in my lifetime i think east i know i set it in motion. of course i know i'm going for a bit for the behavior there i longed for but it does my about it that. i knew all morning for that it is so natural. but you don't go there. i don't want to go back. there's a lot of people who left baghdad in the good times so they have a nice nostalgic memory of it. i know that my memory is

just marred by the loss of my uncle. give all still in awe blood. in. it's like and distant bells ringing in the back of a heads always reminding us where we came from. i still miss that but. i wouldn't like the going out because it's all in the early us the places i know. i'm not the same. it's better that to remember. everything as it is grows as well as it was sort of it. was dreamy that.

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