The Farhud

The Nazis needed oil. The Arabs wanted the Jews and British out of Iraq. The Mufti of Jerusalem forged a far-ranging alliance with Hitler resulting in the June 1941 Farhud, a Nazi-style pogrom in Baghdad and across Iraq that set the stage for the devastation and expulsion of the Iraqi Jews and ultimately almost a million Jews across the Arab world. The Farhud was the beginning of what became a broad Nazi-Arab alliance in the Holocaust.

See more about observations of the day, resources, and history at The Farhud — History and Resources, and check out Harif, the Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, which is dedicated to preserving the history of the Jewish communities from that part of the world.