This is archival material from the Baghdadi Jewish community containing a list from the Aiding Committee of Victims of June 1941 (the Farhud). Included are: an inventory of lists containing names, business shop numbers, professions, assets stolen from a shop or a house, the remaining amount, and the amount suggested for assistance.

Included in this item are correspondence from the Baghdadi Jewish community to the Iraqi and British governments concerning increasing anti-Jewish and sectarian harassment experienced by community members, correspondence signed by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, and summaries of the Jewish Daily Post. This item also contains documents describing the arrest of individuals, restrictions on movement, and a violent attack on the Jewish residents of a village near Mosul in early 1941. Also in the documents are: newspaper clippings announcing students accepted into different institutions of higher education; a section of a 1948 newspaper with articles pertaining to the Arab-Israeli War of 1948; documents discussing education issues, such as Baghdadi Jewish students encountering difficulty in being accepted to certain state schools and failing tests at an unusually high rate, enrollment rates in schools, and teachers at Jewish schools suspected of propagating Zionism; a file folder with a student record, photograph, doctor’s notes, and examination results; a statement condemning Zionism signed by several prominent members of the Baghdadi Jewish community addressed to the Secretary of the League of Nations, Geneva.

This item includes records of property belonging to the Baghdadi Jewish community, including correspondence, donation records, and a ledger of individuals and families that may have received assistance after the Farhud in 1941.