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it's two in the morning and when she 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 i tell my son that he was born in finchley and this was where his eye surgery started. and you. know we have gotten

possible off iraq and i would not let go. 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 or as a move 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 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 no clothes still i think i'm a lucky guess i got the sun and the molding and of all that money. i first came across the jews of baghdad when i was asked to catalog an archive. it belonged to the family of david dangle. when david's father was born there were one hundred forty thousand jews in baghdad . they made up nearly half the city. few people in baghdad now remember them. through their houses and old synagogues are everywhere. edwin has arrived in baghdad looking for his roots. i feel. finished with this place. unfinished

business or. i don't even know the dangers because when i go people. on the road are you kidding are you crazy. few. i feel i see if i'm a jew. or a. 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 zion. they stayed and wrote a 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 field this is my grandfather's ficci from by of iraq. it was hanging of it i was sitting in rolling back there. to show that life was good. in the. face. his speech was that. we don't have religion we are all iraqis jews and christians only it was a good time it was then it will spend. this paradise was

created by the british who took but one thousand nine hundred seventy. this little boy being pulled along into a british time is it means constant david cholesky on his father's farm at the time to. do with the world. by far that have been the relation with their. i made it very clear you have to believe. they were like a brother. brother like a brother i mean they are they after all a whole week or two their whole we were just like part of one house and my father. can speak english. they were the rulers and if you are in line with the british

the levee can be that the north the jews were in line with the british i met salim fatah in israel on many others like me the pool class thought the british. robey. most of. our 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. the lot and the free you have nothing to go go. but when british rule ended in one thousand nine hundred two the oilman didn't go home the m m i did king of this and on their country to meet with directors of the after credit in company fashion magic's give the authentic that have touch. not to the population have any other kind of either yet it was independence. on terms i were

to say. their realism oster. 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 three my camp was translated into arabic. i met sure the nash a was a child in basra. there was a famous see. but in the sky it clearly on the ground miss year whether i missed a lovely summer or feel of the vehicle for. its own separate 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 and with the influence of the narcisse during the thirty years they are in danger to us our intention. to move to moved into this house on the banks of the tigris in baghdad next door to david's family the dangour was. 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 chanting 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 awful. lot of beer on. it without the benefit of the rebels although followed. the nationalist or defeated completely by the end of may. the half escalations who is the object that can be victim for this is frustration the truce.

i met just bare on spend most shane 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 the day out 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 he said please give us every few words. with a bird called his god of a started to cross us to the other side. my uncle. was a slaughter and it's part of the business both of them they live together that die together. to share the class where they stopped the process and took which was outside and they killed our neighbors were muslims. and then my mother.

and her only after we were very good friend. she's a breast fed me. and god bless her calea as they came to our house she was strong one the big one is just. could be their. own ship the fifty that asked for three days. to shift 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 most he fled and went to buy. the dang the house where he lived and that kids got to play in the most is god. the war hawk is touched on. 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 back that. david to mattias 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 sudden mounds of wishful thinking that. is the truth and nothing. but the less well off jews were worried. they saw the right during the room as a warning. really joined

a secret cell. phone road. there are those who are we continue. to hone call you didn't begin to share say the above more no more loyal to him last sort of call today if your doc. said. 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 he didn't tell a lot more shoe industry leaders. to give him course if you took the car he thomas kushal how to. cook we must conclude. you should wash how much of.

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 whole don't agree with me 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 jews. around spend most say decided to learn hebrew the chosen language of the new state i dunno of all the people that came to study with me. we went far far away in the desert somewhere near or. near the river or somewhere very far nobody lives there not a soul of the. first lady of the world there. we had

the bacon eggs they were talking about this or it was like the end like either but all the movie that so everybody was interested to go. 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 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 bill tucker and when israel won the war the iraqi government of the time mostly because the jews over there were a very difficult situation getting nine hundred fifty. jews were fired from government jobs and the people boycotted and shops. jews closed down businesses they do not bear to go to the streets. they hang. jewish people for the zionism and the land of due for communism. so everyone and the story that there was no way for us to leave their. money open the door was. a deal funded by american zionist. with sweetness to 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 you use to do and holidays and all and in the synagogue they want not really dying. but then a series of bombs went off in jewish districts 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 the seven hundred thousand when the register in the synagogue so we were about two hundred twenty thousand. the minute they clause 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 i'm moving you can sell your house you can sell not even a pen. and we left iraq with them pounds. throughout the summer of one nine hundred fifty one planes flew continuously from baghdad to tel aviv. until one hundred twenty thousand iraqi jews were carried away.

but the welcome wasn't. they were expecting. looking like creatures from the arabian. it's a colorful site but scarcely a pretty one. a sort of weird costume ball on poles in front of you abusing bizarre but. if. they concede that people will have no cause to be god does not exist the our language is the language of the enemy and they be fine. black people. in the room some of these people may have been well to do or even well think what you mean and tell no more they are all penniless. basically the message just came back guys don't rush for god's sake we were rushed

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. and when it's left the safety of the hotel to look for his childhood home now sandwiched between the notoriously violent side a city and the river. the area is controlled by a shia militia. the taxi driver is nervous and of course for the portion. of the mosque so much very a lot of what. father was shot early on will be. odd a

careful because it could be the police. that caught them put them cut them up we would call. them adoption of the. other g. the b. 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 same. as the floyd way way way way. that as we know. they got it how do you hide because we know that how do you think i would be out of my she don't know but. why do you think you always open up with a mark on the boat. well i would. say with. when i saw the house in perth. that you have to leave your old home.

like a criminal. case difficult to put myself into the cauldron of boiling motions. on the jew who always lived here. it's a kind of a feeling of belonging. but there's just other mother and i other than a minute by minute even jewish funny guy how'd of could be a goof what i left out of on the other shot of him and him should be you know most of it with his heart and of a heart and all will of about that guy but the courage to do we would use 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.

that it. may twig is still standing. when saddam hussein needed to please the americans hearing straight to be peace. but it's too dangerous for jews to actually worship. baghdad was the center of the jewish war for over fifteen hundred years. they were both in color mode bob you know in your cohort. why isis is put so much into iraq. i can't live. with the fact that my grandfather he's very. you know we've abandoned him we just say goodbye back.

but it's way. could everything. oh i don't know gave in the back. while it claims i was egyptian president is it makes a public appearance following the season of the sleaze seen by the first twin 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 done good settling in my brother who were not happy. feeling

a kind of exile. behind the sort of facade of easygoing life. all house was on the river front 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. raid you 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 his plan to end the republican rebels of up to ten thousand pounds for his right. to stand the no one thing as a woman is doable. this is i did carry him cost him 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 coupe happened everybody rushed to the balcony to watch. the prime minister for iraq and the site they tied his body to a car and just the usual. 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 all. and 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 kink hanged on the war. we'll put it down when we're at it. and put it away in a store. four thousand jews stayed after the revolution . the first six months we thought we are going to be called when the east. now even want to learn about communism with us we're out of stuff we are going to be probably. the david kalash had to dealerships and in france the american cars we have what about seventy or eighty dogs. when the revolution came in we thought nobody were day or two right there because our you want to go in this war or otherwise they would kill you. you corrode merely in six months the government the open embassies of the east russia embassy. china

these people they are starving for american cars. with going in the room with every car the streets of beijing because of the short face of revolution. in one thousand nine hundred 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 a d.d.

deathy. i live. in march to have a mosque ninety six he said. everything changed in sixty seven when the six day war started. to clear remember coming home from school my mother picked us up. i think in her face. the traffic was stopped by police. convoy with lots of soldiers all do their guns. iran was one of five states fighting israel in the six day war in june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. i remember my brother distinctly 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 consequences were immediate for the two thousand jews still

living in baghdad. people from being a post office locked on the door i opened the door myself of the house where the the telephones are and i just took them they pulled the cords from the wall 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 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 spy their member my dad's complection 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 them on television the doorbell rings and when the doorbell rings in the middle of the night even of four be it without a look at the evening and for everybody the door the there is no reason for their doorbell to ring alleges trouble and sure enough it was my are to say. they've taken well because. 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. if you're determined small. another one to jewish men furnished from their family. then came use of danny's uncle. it was a notice like all others. to sell an apartment on the same page size color. and 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 as everybody had just one thought left let's get out. jews were not allowed to have possible so they couldn't leave the country. so there was no other option just. seventy seventy one that year 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 that ventures for us. very secure she tried to keep herself occupied. she was making goals walky men and women in customs. plans were to go on holiday such to northern iraq it's beautiful it's lovely.

once we're in the kurdish areas we're pretty much safe because they didn't have any and i must it was us. we knew that this was a proper way to escape. over seventy one my father growth the family 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 be your holiday jolie and you're looking at around that your sisters who are younger to

a grandmother who was praying about woodley. 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 iraq and kurdish iraq and the guy turned around and said you're ok now you've made it. which was just was amazing we knew that we we were free and 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 a passport had been taken away her application for a new one suddenly went through. its work clothes into

we had less hits cases with us where went to a friend's house and the next morning we'll length of the efforts and left. in 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 return within three months and all your property is confiscated. and you lose your less ladies your nationality and also the city off a little. in two thousand and three iraq was once again invaded. and i'm doing american airlines wanted to be rid of saddam and say. i'm

going to be to edwin in northern iraq he's buying his house and have build 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 appeal city center. half. price locally. but probably a little bit closer to. 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. it could die with me. but if i don't see 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 my body that. i knew mourning 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. iraq still in all blood. it's like and distant bell ringing in the back of a heads always reminding us where we came from. i still miss but. i wouldn't let the going out because it's all in. the places i know. i'm not the same. it's big that to remember. everything as it. were as it was well as it was.

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