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Esperance David – The family in Israel

INT:    So your family were in Israel, they’re building a life up. So, were they with other Iraqis?  Were they a community in Iraq?

ED:      Well yes, as I was saying, they were all told to leave and take 50 [pounds]. No matter what you had, house or anything. And when I was in Israel, I asked my sister, what happened to your lovely house?  So she laughed, she said, we have got the key of it. She was really being sarcastic. They took the house, what’s the key used for?  They took everything, confiscated everything. “And now you want to go to be in Israel. You’re Jews, you are Zionist, you go to Israel, take fifty pounds, see how far you can go with it and the suitcase that you can carry with you”, and that was it.  And this is how they started.

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Links to Other Testimonies by Esperance David

Before the War
During the War in the early 40’s
In London in 1948
Baghdad Pogrom 1941
In the 50’s in Baghdad
The family in Israel
Life for Esperance in England
Life with her husband David
In Scotland
Integration
Reflection

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