AI English Translation, Pages 151-175
1- Complaints from members of the community in ⟦some⟧ northern districts and villages regarding persecution and misery (Tuz Khurmatu,
Kifri, Shahraban, Zakho, Khanaqin, the killing of a Jew near Aqrah - residents of the Menashi
Saleh synagogue from the people of Shushin, Susnawa, Hazara, and Dubi).
2- Lack of freedom of movement between Baghdad, Khanaqin, Kifri, Shahraban, and some other cities.
3- Complaints from the people of (Halabja, Baqubah, Shahraban, Al-Muqdadiya, Al-Shamiya, Nasiriyah,
and Amarah) regarding the delay in deciding on the revocation of their citizenship, as they have sold everything they own
and are waiting for deportation.
4- Withdrawal of licenses from lawyers who signed citizenship revocation forms before the Council of
Ministers' decision to revoke their citizenship.
5- Restrictions on the transfer of car ownership, requiring the presentation of a (non-revocation) certificate from the Travel
and Nationality Police.
6- Slowness in the process of revocation and deportation, difficulties with bans and income tax, and the proposal to create
a special directorate for the revocation of citizenship.
- The issue of guarantees for students of the College of Medicine and Pharmacy.
- The poor health situation of prisoners in Nuqrat al-Salman.
Number | Full Name | Neighborhood and House Number | Passport Number | Liwa | Ticket Number | Remarks
1 | Latifa Saleh Ibrahim | Aqd Bahr | 7 | Baghdad | 1 | 29 / 10 / 50
2 | Mozi Rahmin Shaul | Bab al-Agha 7 / 109 | 16 | '' | '' | ''
3 | Naji Shaul Daoud | Taht al-Takiya | 2 | '' | '' | ''
4 | Raouf Haifa Koh | Bataween 22 / 8 / 1 | 12 | '' | '' | ''
5 | Victor Ahmed Jabji | Taht al-Takiya | 4 | '' | '' | ''
6 | Daoud Haqiqa Twayq | Karrada 148 / 129 | 18 | '' | '' | ''
7 | Hesqail Yona Askar | Bataween | 1 | '' | '' | ''
8 | Shaul al-Zaid Ezra | Bustan al-Khass | 5 | '' | '' | ''
9 | Mozi Yona Twayq | Bataween | 2 | '' | '' | ''
10 | Ibrahim Shiaa Abd | Faraj Allah | | '' | '' | ''
11 | Ibrahim Ahmed Ibrahim | Taht al-Takiya 90 / 140 | 9 | '' | '' | ''
12 | Daoud Salman Saleh | '' 12 / 112 | 19 | '' | '' | ''
13 | Nadira Daoud '' | '' | '' | '' | '' | ''
14 | Munir '' | '' | 12 | '' | '' | ''
15 | Badriya '' | '' | 9 | '' | '' | ''
16 | Claudette '' | '' | 7 | '' | '' | ''
17 | Rahmin '' | '' | 5 | '' | '' | ''
18 | Naim Matta Eliyahu | '' 12 / 112 | 10 | '' | '' | ''
19 | Madiha Daoud Salman | '' | 14 | '' | '' | ''
20 | Eliza Daoud Salman | '' | 12 | '' | '' | ''
21 | Dori Saleh Abdullah | Alwiyah | 6 | '' | '' | ''
22 | Shaul Haifa Koh | '' | 25 | '' | '' | ''
23 | Nouri Abdullah Daoud | Bustan al-Khass 10 / 14 / 15 | | '' | '' | ''
24 | Lulu Ibrahim Tawfiq | Karrada al-Sharqiya | 29 | '' | '' | ''
25 | Isaac Saleh Abdullah | Bataween | 6 | '' | '' | ''
26 | Ezra Yusuf Samah | Karrada al-Sharqiya | 24 | '' | '' | ''
27 | Abdullah Haqiqa Salman | Hamilton 1 / 25 / 17 | | '' | '' | ''
28 | Salwa Salman Shuaa | '' 15 / 41 / 20 | | '' | '' | ''
To His Excellency the Honorable Head of the Community
May God grant you happiness
We have appealed many times and received no result, and now there is danger
to our lives. My lord, we have abandoned our properties and wealth, and how
can we defend ourselves?
My lord, we hope from God and from your Excellency that you
will prepare a report for us and save us from the village of Sadur
since on Saturday night our neighbor informed us that they will attack the village
and kill the known individuals.
My lord, we took cars and fled to Duhok and we came
to Baghdad and we came to your Excellency.
My lord, we hope you will provide us with a place so that we can bring our families
to Baghdad until our matter is resolved.
My lord, they have prohibited all sales of fruit and the things we have because
if anyone comes and buys something from us, even ⟦bread⟧ or poplar
or wood, they fine him fifty or a hundred dinars.
Day by day, day by day, the injustice increases, so we hope for your opinion, my lord.
Lover Shalom Benjamin Khosh | Abdullah Yusuf | Merki
Nahum Elia | Moshi Yusuf | Moshi Nahum
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Incoming Telegram
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In Fallujah
Number:
Telegram Type:
Registration Time:
Arrived at hour: 12
Minute: 25
From: Amarah
Received by: ⟦illegible⟧
Word count: Administrative Instructions
Date: 5 May 51
Issuing Office: Amarah
To the President of the Jewish Community
We, the Jews of Amarah, renounced our citizenships three
months ago and completed all procedures related to our travel and we
sold our furniture and shops and became without work or shelter and our condition
is deplorable and we ask you to quickly take the step of our refuge
Number 9
Incoming Internal Telegram
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To your highness, appealing to your kindness to expedite our travel
and your mercy, wishing you success in goodness, addressed to His Excellency the Prime Minister
and His Excellency the Minister of Interior and His Excellency the Director General of Police
and His Excellency the Director of Travel and Nationality and His Honor the Head of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad / The petitioners on behalf of the Jews of Amarah
Incoming Telegram
Number
Type of Telegram
Time of Issuance
⟦Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Iraq⟧
Department Number: 3
Arrived at Hour:
Minute:
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To Cohen Gabriel . Naeem Ibrahim . Eliyahu Isaac .
Abdul Rahman . Yaqub Ibrahim . Ephraim Menashe . Yaqub Isaac
Eliyahu Ezekiel
To His Excellency, the Most Honorable Minister of Interior
Presented to Your Excellency.
Our Master. We, the undersigned members of the Jewish community in Nasiriyah, have submitted a request to renounce Iraqi citizenship in accordance with the Citizenship Renunciation Law Decree No. 62 of 1933 and No. 1 of 1950.
This was on 4/30/1950, and after completing our transactions regarding citizenship renunciation, clearance, fingerprinting, criminal records, travel permits, and others, they were sent to Baghdad at the time. Here we are, still waiting for permission to travel to no avail - until hope died in our chests and expectation was cut off.
It is not hidden from Your Excellency that we are of the poor class and among those who lost their jobs a long time ago. All that we had saved, we spent on supporting our families and children. Now we do not even possess the airfare, and we live by the power of the Almighty. We remain bewildered and stunned before the status quo after we sold all our household furniture; we are neither traveling, nor staying, nor finding work through which we might satisfy the hunger of our starving children and families. Even if we wanted, our Master, to live by begging and soliciting, we would not find anyone to give us a crust of bread. If the situation continues like this for a few more days, it will inevitably lead us to one of two things: either suicide or madness. Who can see with their own eyes their children and family starving?
In the name of humanity and justice, we seek your justice, knocking on the door of your mercy, asking for mercy. Mercy, our Master, for our children and families, either by deporting us outside Iraq or by your order to instruct the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad to shelter us in one of its locations so that it may support our families.
Here we entrust our tormented souls and the innocent souls of our children as a trust in your pure hands so that you may decide our fate. The matter is entrusted to your sound opinion, our esteemed Master.
A copy to -
The Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad - for your kind information.
⟦signature⟧
Anis Akadam | ⟦signature⟧
Salim Shalom | ⟦signature⟧
Salim Shalom | ⟦signature⟧
Youssef Akadam
⟦signature⟧
Hafo Saleh Dali | ⟦signature⟧
Julia Fakhouri | ⟦signature⟧
Moshe Akadam | ⟦signature⟧
Ibrahim Nouri Akadam
⟦signature⟧
Badr Abdullah Zakka | ⟦signature⟧
Shalom T. Zal Abdullah Zakka | ⟦signature⟧
Yamin Moshe | ⟦signature⟧
Moshe Youssef
⟦signature⟧
Victoria Meir | ⟦signature⟧
Daoud Saleh Shash | ⟦signature⟧
Fawzia Naem | ⟦signature⟧
Badr Saleh
⟦signature⟧
Saleh Daoud | ⟦signature⟧
Moshe Saleh | ⟦signature⟧
Najm Youssef | ⟦signature⟧
Salim Labib
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Sarah Daoud | ⟦signature⟧
Moshe Saleh | |
Samira Moussa | Nazima Saleh
Nazima Saleh | ⟦Qasim⟧ Yousef
⟦illegible⟧ | Khair Moallem Yousef
Khair Moallem
Isaac | Isaac Yousef
Naima Daoud | Bulbula Hammadi
Bulbula | Abdullah Dweik
Abdullah Dweik | Juliet Abdullah
Suhaila Ibrahim
Suhaila | Tasma Haroun
Tasma Haroun | Fawzia Murad
Fawzia | Lawza Moussa
Lawza
Shaul Daniel
Shaul Daniel | Nassim Yaqub
Nassim Yaqub | Nouri Daniel
Nouri Daniel | Masouda Abed
Masouda
Bertine Hamou | Ibrahim Rubin
Ibrahim Rubin | | Farheel Yaqub
Yousef Shalom
Yousef Shalom | Rubin Khadouri | Sunni Torah
Sunni Torah | Sharifa Isaac
Sharifa Isaac
Maatouqa Shua'i | Jumla Munshi
Jumla Munshi | Juliet Munshi
Juliet Munshi |
Ibrahim Khadouri | Nazima Daniel | Yousef Moshi
Yousef Moshi | Minha Shaul
Minamina Shlomo
Minamina Shlomo | Salima Abed
Salima Abed | Habiba ⟦illegible⟧
Habiba | Nouri Shamoun
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⟦fingerprint⟧
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His Excellency the President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad, the Respected
After greetings, further to our letter numbered ⟦illegible⟧ and dated 4/24/51
The Income Tax Department in Mosul has begun notifying those who requested
the renunciation of their citizenships ⟦illegible⟧ what I see of this action
is disturbing all members of the community, therefore Mr.
Akram Munshi Musa Rubin, who is among the honorable sons of the community, has headed
to present to your position the situation to kindly provide us with the necessary guidance
This is for your Excellency's respect ⟦illegible⟧
4 / 25 / 51 President of the Jewish Community
in Mosul
The firm president is a man preoccupied with his own affairs and does not burden
himself with following up on transactions or even asking about them. But we
know that (Allah does not burden a soul beyond its capacity) and by mistake
he does not make room for others, so he neither swims nor lets go of the bag.
As for the Mukhtar, may God bless him. Your Excellency knows best what is with him and
he does not need a description of his masters.
And now, Your Excellency the President, we have placed our trust in you because of
the courage and service to the public interest we have sensed in you, so we have come
seeking your Excellency's assistance to complete our transaction
Khaled is going on our trip.
Therefore, we hope that you will fulfill our hope and include us
in your kindness and not disappoint our hope, and thank you.
Mawsili
T / 2014 / 55
12 / 5 / 1950
His Excellency the Director of General Income Tax
Baghdad
⟦line⟧
After greetings
And Mr. Daoud Zakaria
We have authorized Mr. Murad Twig to visit your esteemed directorate
to follow up on matters related to Jews who have renounced their Iraqi citizenship
and who are referred to your directorate to obtain the necessary tax clearance certificates.
Therefore, we hope to rely on the aforementioned person in this regard and provide
possible facilities to him. Note that they are authorized to receive the clearance notices
pertaining to those who have renounced their citizenship.
Please accept our highest respect;
Sincerely
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
⟦signature⟧
12 / 5
Mr. Ephraim Kashi
Amara
Two hundred people from the residents of Amara cannot pay the fees and we will keep them in
Baghdad until you assist in paying their fees. They are appealing to you and the merchants of Amara for help
waiting for the answer.
⟦Salah⟧
7/2
Head of the Community
Heskel Daoud Shemtob
Acting Head of the Jewish Community - Baghdad
⟦signature⟧
7100
One urgent telegram
Baghdad
Telegraph Administration Department
5 JUL 50
TELS.
BAGHDAD
Number: ⟦illegible⟧
Telegram type: ⟦illegible⟧
Time of receipt: 8.50
Arrived at hour: ⟦illegible⟧
Minute:
Received by: Gharib 17
Word count: 24
Administrative instructions:
Date: 5-7
Issuing office: Amman
To Baghdad Head of the Israelite Community
We received your telegram and presented it to the merchants but sir
none of them any assistance although they are capable and our ability
with their names may be due to the necessity of issuing a permit
Knowing that I will travel today to Basra
For error
Error in the word
Incoming Internal Telegram
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To: For consultation with the community for four days
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Ephraim Kashi
T / 50 / 1417
8 / 6 / 1950
His Eminence, the Head of the Jewish Community in Mosul, the Respected
After greetings
We have contacted His Excellency the Director of General Income Tax to facilitate the affairs of the members
of the community regarding income tax in Mosul, within the limits of the law.
He promised us well and added that he is ready to accept petitions from those concerned, provided that
they clarify the difficulties they are facing ⟦line⟧ .
Please note this with you, and please accept our respect;
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6 / 7
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Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
A / 7 / 6
T / 1418 / 50
8 / 6 / 1950
Department Copy
His Excellency the Director of Baghdad District Police, Respected
After greetings
We request the allocation of a sufficient number of police officers to maintain order in
the street of Masouda Shemtob Synagogue located in Al-Bataween, numbered 2 / 9 / 1, as
the aforementioned synagogue is used ⟦by us⟧ as a headquarters for the deportation of Jews whose Iraqi
citizenship has been revoked. In view of the large crowds and congestion near the aforementioned synagogue, we request that
measures be taken to organize such congestion and maintain ⟦...⟧
The aforementioned synagogue is used as a headquarters for the deportation of Jews whose Iraqi
citizenship has been revoked. In view of the large crowds and congestion near the aforementioned synagogue, we request that
measures you deem appropriate be taken to prevent this congestion and maintain ⟦line⟧
or⟦line⟧der.
With our highest thanks and res⟦line⟧pect to your Excellency.
Note:
This letter was issued based on
the request of Mr. Khedhouri Laby Shua Shemtob
⟦signature⟧
6/7
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
6/7/9
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Mosul
Number: 484
Date: 22 / 5 / 1950
His Excellency the President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad, the Respected
After greetings and much respect, members of the Jewish community
in Mosul are still approaching us urgently regarding the income tax, as a group of them
were not previously registered. And the Income Tax Department in Mosul has notified them
and subjected them to exorbitant taxes for a period of five years, and since most of these
applicants are poor and unable to pay those taxes, and we have understood that
Your Excellency was able to obtain an order exempting persons who did not have
a name in the records of the Income Tax Department previously, so we ask you to please
inform us of the truth of this news so that we may approach the
competent authorities in light of it. With our highest respect to Your Excellency.
⟦signature⟧
President of the Jewish Community
in Mosul
Department Copy
T/ 1422 / 50
1950/6/12
The Honorable Teacher Saleh Mir Basri
Teacher of the Jewish Community in Mandali
After greetings
In view of what we have learned regarding the relocation of the majority of the members of the Jewish community
in Mandali to Baghdad, please proceed to bring the contents of the synagogue (Torah) in
Mandali to Baghdad, including the scrolls (Sefarim), rugs, and religious books, and deliver them
to the Jewish Spiritual Council in Baghdad.
Please accept our respects,
⟦illegible⟧
6/12
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
Note:
This letter was issued based on
the request of Mr. Salman Shahrabani
6/13/1
⟦illegible⟧
6/12
Department Copy
T / 2514 / 50
14 / 6 / 1950
His Excellency the Director General of Propaganda, Respected
Baghdad
After greetings,
In view of what we have noticed regarding the large number of applicants from Jews whose
Iraqi citizenship has been revoked to your department for the purpose of endorsing Hebrew religious books
(the Torah and its commentaries) belonging to them, in order to allow them to transport them with their personal
belongings outside Iraq, we have seen fit to request you to notify the competent Customs
departments to allow them to transport these books without the need to present them to your
respected department, in order to simplify matters given the clarity of their religious subjects.
Please accept our highest respect;
Sincerely,
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
⟦signature⟧
14 / 6
A / 14 / 6
Department Copy
Z / 50 / 1427
14 / 6 / 1950
General Income Tax Directorate
Baghdad
Greetings,
Please be informed that Mr. Meir Haya is the acting principal of the
Shamash School and receives a nominal salary of thirty Dinars per month. Sincerely.
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
4 / 15 / 6
⟦illegible⟧
Department Copy
T / 1427 / 50
12 / 6 / 1950
Directorate of Income Tax and Supervision of General Banks
Greetings,
Please be informed that the income tax due from Mr. Meir Hayya,
Acting Director of Shamash School, has been deducted from his salaries starting from 1 / 4 / 1950 until
the date of his separation from his position, and we will transfer it to your esteemed directorate within the deductions
of the 50/51 fiscal year for the aforementioned school.
Please accept our respects;
⟦illegible⟧
12 / 6
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
Note
This letter was issued based on
the request of the Schools Committee. ⟦illegible⟧
6 / 12
6 / 13 / 9
T / 1428 / 50
15 / 6 / 1950
Department Copy
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Hilla
After greetings,
A group of community members in Hilla who are
participating in the citizenship renunciation work voluntarily have approached us and presented some difficulties
they face while facilitating the citizenship renunciation procedures for the official
employees.
Therefore, I would be most grateful if you would kindly provide all possible
assistance to them to enable them to carry out their mission, especially their need for financial
aid.
Please accept our respects;
⟦The⟧
6/15
⟦illegible signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
A / 15 / 6
Presidency of the Israelite Community Committee, Kirkuk
Number:
Date: June 11, 1950
The Honorable President of the Israelite Community, Baghdad
Respectfully submitted,
Mr. President - Out of the Kirkuk community's desire to consult your Excellency regarding the procedures to be taken concerning
the Torah scrolls and their implements located in Kirkuk, given that most of the town's members are rushing to renounce [citizenship], and it is expected that
the Torah scrolls will remain completely vacant in the end. We ask you to kindly inform us and guide us on the method you deem appropriate
for the Torah implements in this regard. As you will find below a list of the Torah implements, we therefore ask your Excellency to inform us of what is necessary
in writing so that we may take the necessary measures. May God grant success for the good of all, and may you remain successful.
Signatures of community members
⟦illegible⟧
On behalf of the Head of the Community
Salim Daoud
Daoud Shaqouri
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
23 Sivan
5711
Number | List of Implements
45 | Sifrei Torah
27 | Pairs of Rimonim
27 | Pointers (Yads)
We ask you for the quantity, and do you advise us to remove the silver plates from them or should they remain as they are?
We ask you to kindly inform us of what is necessary in detail.
Department Copy
T 50/1429
16 / 6 / 1950
Presidency of the Israeli Community Committee
Kirkuk
⟦line⟧
Greetings,
With reference to your letter dated June 11, 1950,
You may transfer the properties of the two synagogues (Torah) mentioned in your letter referred to
above, including scrolls, codices, carpets, and menorahs, to Baghdad for delivery
to the Spiritual Council, when it becomes apparent to you that there is no longer a need for them.
Please accept our respects;
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
A / 15 / 6
⟦signature⟧
12 / 6
T / 1421 / 500
1950/6/18
⟦Photocopy⟧
The Honorable Ministry of Finance
(Directorate of General Accounts)
Baghdad
After greetings
On the occasion of the application of the Law Supplementing the Law on the Forfeiture of Iraqi Nationality No. 62 of 1933
No. (1) of 1950, the Directorate of Travel and Nationality Police has begun circulating a statement with the names of some persons
of the Jews wishing to renounce their nationality to each of the Income Tax, Customs, General Revenue departments,
and the Presidency of Foreign Exchange for the purpose of endorsing them that the person under discussion is cleared of liability regarding
these departments.
These departments have begun requesting that the aforementioned statement be stamped with a 40-fils
fiscal stamp along with a ten-fils Palestine Rescue stamp. Since the aforementioned endorsement is considered a notification and report issued based
on the request of an official department and not at the request of the person himself, it is, in this case, exempt from the stamp
according to what was stated in paragraph (e) of Article (13) of the Third Schedule regarding exempt papers attached
to the Iraqi Stamp Law.
Therefore, we request that the competent departments be notified to sign the aforementioned statement without a stamp.
⟦M. H.⟧
Please accept our highest respect;
⟦illegible⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
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