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A man stands at a ruined Jewish synagogue in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on July 5, 2020. Jews were historically Iraq's second-largest religious sect, comprising 40 percent of Baghdad's population according to a 1917 census, before their exile in 1969. (Photo/JTA-Safin Hamed-AFP via Getty Images)

52 years ago, 9 Jews were hanged in Baghdad. Today, their descendants risk losing everything they left behind.

by Carole Basri, Adriana Davis and JTA January 28, 2021February 10, 2021

On Jan. 27, 1969, nine Jews were hanged in Tahrir Square in the center of Baghdad as half a million people looked on. It was the climax of a campaign of persecution that followed […]