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Carole Basri

Carole Basri

Carole Basri is the daughter of Iraqi Jewish Refugees. The Frank Iny School, the last Jewish school to operate in Baghdad, was built by her grandfather. Carole and Adriana Davis have made four films about the Jews of Iraq. Their latest, “Saving the Iraqi Jewish Archives: A Journey of Identity” explores the significance of the archives and the struggle to keep it safe and accessible.

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

Carole BasriAdriana Davis 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 […]

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