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| "THE SATAN AT THE DOOR" - EPOXY ON CANVAS - 140 X 200 C"M. ON SUNDAY THE 1st. OF JUNE 1941 AT THREE O'CLOCK, THE MASSACRE AND LOOTING OF HOMES, SHOPS AND STORES OF THE JEWS OF BAGHDAD STARTED AND FINALLY CAME TO AN END AT TWO O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON OF MONDAY. MOBS ARMED WITH KNIVES, REVOLVERS AND RIFLES, STARTED THE MASSACRE BY STOPPING ALL BUSES IN THE THEN GHAZI STREET, LEADING TO THE FORMER JEWISH MIDDLE CLASS QUARTER, TAKING OUT THE JEWS WHO WERE IN THESE BUSES, SLAUGHTERING THEM AND THROWING THEIR BODIES ON THE STREETS. THOUSANDS OF MOSLEMS BROKE INTO MARKED JEWISH HOMES, MASSACRED CHILDREN, WOMEN AND OLD MEN, VIOLATED AND WOUNDED MANY GIRLS AND WOMEN AND KIDNAPPED THE BEAUTIFUL ONES. THEY SLAUGHTERED SOME BABIES, CUT OPEN THEIR ABDOMENS AND REMOVED THEIR INTESTINES IN FRONT OF THE HORRIFIED PARENTS. |
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