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Thread: Meet Hela, my grandmother, loving, generous, caring Jewish mother of 12. She think that she is 93 y/o, but when she was forced out of Iraq her official documents were taken and over the years she didn’t celebrate her birthday and forget the exact date she was born... 
She doesn’t speak a lot about her past. It is challenging to get any negative stories from Iraq out of her. She prefers to tell me stories about how great it was, how beautiful Baghdad is, and how they always felt safe – until the 2 days of horror: June 1-2, 1941, the #Farhud.
To me, this event signifies the days of catastrophe; the start of a Jewish “Nakba” (catastrophe) that no one wants to acknowledge. These two days led to my family becoming refugees.
“Farhud” means brutal intimidation of a population by its ruler, but it was more than just the...
“Farhud” means brutal intimidation of a population by its ruler, but it was more than just the...
