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it's two in the morning edwin sugar 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 joys of iraq. i can no longer carry on living as if nothing has happened to tell my son that he was born in finchley and this was where his eye surgery started. this year. we are bottom boss of of iraq and i will not let go.

edwin wants 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 or as a move like this is me take it as long as our house is being bought and use of iraq . we are still there. and that gives me the sense of belonging. for decades baghdad has meant violence. and the last place most people would want to call home especially the jews. but it wasn't always soon. not diamond got. them i think i'm a lucky guy i got

a son and all 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 . leave they made up nearly half the city. world few 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 haven't finished with this place. i always any always read. this is a unfinished business or. i don't even know it. because when i go people.

on the road. i feel. horrible. edwin was just being flowery. iraqi jews are the ones unsung. the ones who were captured and taken slaves. the ones who sang by the waters of babylon there we sat down and wept when we remembered zion. 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 uncles. they were born on the banks of the tigris when iraq was ruled by the british. now a lean and doreen live in flats one above the other if this is father. of iraq. it was hanging. back there. 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 and christians were all iraqis it was a good time it was very it was better than. this paradise was created by the british who took part in one nine hundred seventy.

this little boy being pulled along into a british tongue. david. on his father's farm near the town of. changed with the world. by a father stick relation with their. i mean did you. believe me they were like a brother but i say like a brother like a brother i mean there are all whole we've heard of the whole we were just like part of one house and my father. can speak english. they were the rule is if you are in line with the british neither of you can be that the no two will iraqi jews were in line with the british i met salim fatah in israel. many others like me in the pool class thought the british.

robey. are or you. do you are trying to tell us what to do we don't want any foreigners here we want to rule ourselves by. grow up and go free you have nothing to go go. but when british rule ended in one thousand nine hundred two the oilman didn't go home. yet and am i did king of this have on their country to meet with directors of the air have to credit him company by shama shakes give the authentic that have touch. not to the pump station how many times have i let you know it was independence. on terms are worth. their reality lost. 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 mind comp was translated into arabic. i met sure the nash a was a child in basra. there was a famous say. but in the sky it closer on the ground this year was i missed out on a lovely summer or feel of a vehicle over. it sounds that bomb. the nazi's 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 and with 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 that up 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 futile

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 threat came over a little bit of an off the on everybody to be had on. it often but if they don't the rebels all of a load of. the nationalist or defeated completely by the end of may. the half escalations who is the object that can be a victim for this is a frustration the truce. i

met just bare on spend 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 a man who 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 of breaking people

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

strong for the big one i should still be there. i'm cheap book fifty that for three days. she saved our life. 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 berlin. the danglers bought the house where he lived and the kids got to play in the most he's got. the more hawkish 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 all and by. david to mattias david dunn gore's 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 the sudden mounds 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. really joined a secret cell county sheriff on the road. there's ours who are we continue. to hone color you didn't begin to share this with new but no more loyal to

him last call today though if you're arc. today he teaches kids at the babylonian museum mentality. and he's bringing his replica guns to tell them about how scientists working for the creation of israel came to train them in fact out why don't you tell a little more shoe industry can use. a given course if you. hate thomas kushal how to. cook you must conclude that. you should rush how much of a budget. the kenyan pact i design ists 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 time. don't argue with me bring bring the jews. because we don't want to happen tomorrow today i know we can bring them so it's bring the jews here. as parents spend most shame decided to learn hebrew the choice nine which is the new state i didn't know all the people that came to study with me. we went far far away in the desert somewhere we are. near the river or somewhere very far nobody lives there not a soul of. forced labor in the world there. we had the bacon 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 maine one 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 arab world. 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 that time mostly against the jews over there was a very difficult situation getting nine hundred fifty. jews were fired from government jobs and the people who today shops. jews closed their businesses they do not dare to go to the streets. they hang good jewish people for the zionism and the land overthrew foregone the music. so everyone and the story that there was no way for us to live their. money open the door was. a deal funded by american scientists. with sweetness for the prime minister's 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 violent they were jews. they have all the whatever it do you used to do in holy days and all and in the synagogue there were not really dying. 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 emigration. 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

register in the synagogue so we were about two hundred twenty thousand. the minute they close the list of all those wanted to go jerusalem they confiscated all the money in the banks or what you had you can't sell a moving 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 television. 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. it's a colorful sight but scarcely

a pretty one. a sort of weird costume ball on poles and front of you would be using bizarre but. if. they can see the people who have no cause to be does not exist the our language is the language of the enemy and they'd be fine. black people. in the room some of these people may have been well to do or even wealthy like me until now or they are all penniless. 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 edwin's family under the money he was comfortable. to leave. alone with seven thousand when. they stayed on. and when his 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 difficult for them watching. the full force of the last song which very a lot of what. a father was shot by leon will be. otic effect. when you don't release. but cut them put them put them away had called. them adoption of other i g g b of you know how that doesn't require.

a lot of bit other bits you know the how it will go for the. oh my god. oh my god of the so you. got it out of our sleeve floyd way way way way. or hard as we know judy and they got it how do you how difficult we know but i sure would. got to be out of by sheer numbers. why do you think you always have a noble mark on the boat. i would. go 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 names here. is a kind of a feeling of belonging. but there's just other mother other than a minute by minute you need genius. how'd of could be that a goof what i left out of on the other shot of him in him should be you almost have it with his heart and of the heart and all of the love about that guy but the courage to do we reduce human who has not edwin is still in his old neighborhood trying to find his family's synagogue. it's called me a twig. and it's now the only maintained synagogue in iraq. but it. may tweak is still standing. when saddam hussein needed to piece the

americans hearing street to be preserved. but it's too dangerous to choose to actually west of. baghdad was the center of the jewish world for over fifteen hundred years. they were both in color moved from dublin only a cupboard. says put so much into iraq. can't live. with the fact that my grandfather is very dear. and that we have abandoned him and we just say goodbye but. claim it's we. could everything. and we don't get even

look back. while the claims of those egyptian president is even some public appearance following the season of the sun seen by the front when suicide took place my father could see that it was a momentous thing happening in the middle east. it was the first time that nationalism asserted itself i remember he used to listen to news day and night he couldn't get away from it one minute. the women i mean probably david douglas mother said to the in my mother who are not happy. you could feel a kind of anxiety behind the sort of facade of easygoing life. all

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 love. i. the radio came on announcing the army had taken over. two years after sue is in one nine hundred fifty eight the monarchy in iraq was overthrown in a leftwing military coup. it had lasted thirty seven years. between premier on the u.s. side is opposed to his plan to end the republican rebels have offered ten thousand

pounds for his right. to stand the new wondering is it really women is doable. this is i do karim cos i'm 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 doll to me to watch. the prime minister for russia in the early site they tied his body to a car and just the usual. style of revenge would pull his body through the streets of baghdad 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's parents finally made the decision to leave iraq. we came to england when we had finally gone and tree it. my fault had hopes to make his life in the land his forefathers he was upset. 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. with it down when we're at it. and put it away in is still rule. four thousand jews stayed after the

revolution. in the first six months we thought we are going to be communist. now if they want to learn about communism with us we're out of stuff we are going to be probably. the david calash had a dealership selling fine t. american cars we have what about seventy or eighty dollars. when the revolution came in we thought no board you were there to write in a big car you want to go in this war or otherwise they would kill you. you corrode really really in six months the government the open embassies of the east russia embassy. china and these people they are starving for american cars.

with going enduring with every car the street edition. of the short piece of revolution. in one thousand sixty three with the tacit support of the cia kassam 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 reading lucky. i live. in march to have a mosque and i did see if he said. everything changed in

sixty seven when the six day war started. their members coming all from school my mother picked us up. by they could her face. the traffic was stopped by police. called the boy with looks of soldiers holding their guns. iran was one of five states fighting his trail in the six day war in june one thousand six hundred seventy. i remember my brother to signal say 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 knows well we're all gone as anyway. the israelis won. and the consequence is remediate for the two thousand jews still living in baghdad. people from the post office talked on the door opened the door myself of the house where the the colorful and so on and i just took them they

pulled the cords from the wall and took all the instrument and they said i'm sorry but rules are rules jews are not allowed anymore the use of the telephone. my mother was placed to meet you job to house to house arrest luckily she knew with the chief inspector of police back that he protected her. there was a lot of help from our muslim friends. in early one nine hundred sixty nine the bath 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 accused them of being spies for israel and

for the west when they said spider i remember my dad's complection change he you know 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. and suddenly we see them on television the doorbell rings and when the doorbell rings in the middle of the night even of a for b. for everybody to look at the evening and for everybody the door there is no reason for their doorbell to ring alerts it's trouble that you're enough it was my are saying help if they can either well. they had come to ask you to check. no matter what we tried what how we tried

we could not find out where he was. for me it was like almost the end of the world. a few 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 there will be. tomorrow morning. that was my turning point i guess. it was only one thought which is the same thing of everybody who just one thousand left let's get out. jews went off

a lot of possible so they couldn't leave the country. so there was no although option just. seventy seventy one that your old 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 she was planning to run away. but not at all the venture is for us and. very insecure she tried to keep myself occupied. she was making dolls 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 in a must to do was this. 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 tried to be cool. pretending to your holiday be jolly when you're looking at around that your sisters or younger to a grandmother who was praying about woodley. is it possible this soldier 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 was amazing we knew that we we were free we were just ecstatic. did you skip. unity was now down to a few hundred. to back but his attention drifted elsewhere. eleven years after alians passport had been taken away her application for a new one suddenly went through. its were close into we had less it cases with us where went to a friend's house and the next morning we're length of the f.

lot and less. alien arrived in london on the eighteenth of december nine hundred seventy four heaving two hundred eighty jews in baghdad. once you leave the country and don't return within three months and all your property is confiscated. and you lose your less ladies your nationality is not considered the offered any. in two thousand and three iraq was once again invaded. and non-doing american alliance 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 say at bayless safe islamic states frontline is just a short drive from met bill city center. paris. there are. probably a lot of real close. i bought this house and it is a step in my dream. you know what maybe just maybe in thirty forty fifty sixty years time 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 can least 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 god my body that. i knew all morning for that if you so much or. if 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. iraq still in all blood. in. it's like and distant battle ringing in the back of all it's. always reminding us where we came from. i still miss that. i wouldn't let the going out because it's all in the philippines the places i know. i'm not the same. it's that to remember. everything as it is or is it well as it was. i was dreaming.

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