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iraqi jews
Custody battle over rare Iraqi-Jewish historical documents
Tom Tugend
September 2, 2015
On May 6, 2003, 16 American soldiers of a special unit searching for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction entered the flooded basement of Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters in Baghdad.
ISIS troops 10 miles from Nahum’s Tomb, Iraqi Jewish pilgrimage site
Jewish Journal
June 4, 2015
The Iraqi site believed to be the burial place of the biblical prophet Nahum is in danger of being destroyed by the Islamic State, or ISIS.
Joseph Samuels: Exposing crime against Iraqi Jews
Karmel Melamed
January 5, 2015
His voice cracking with emotion, his eyes welling with tears, Joseph Samuels, 84 and a retired Jewish real estate developer, recalled the pogrom’s angry Muslim mobs in Baghdad that his Iraqi family and the Jewish community there faced during the Holocaust.
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