In 1941, while Jews in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...faced the horrors of the Holocaust, antisemitism reared its head in Iraq. Jewish people had lived in the country for millennia and could be found living up and down the country, from Zakho, where the community were said to descend from one of the lost tribes of Israel, to the port city of Basra. Most lived in Baghdad, where they made up more than a third of the city's population.