The Farhud and making Aliya

We…there was the Farhud. And they hit my father, and threw him in…in the water. And he was expelled. They took the keys of…where the [__] lives. They took all his gold from him. My mother didn’t know. My mother was pregnant. She went searching for him…and saw him. She took him from there and a…someone…when the Farhud happened, they came into our house and stole (things) and robbed…everything…however much they wanted, they took. Money, gold…my mother couldn’t work in Iraq. Women didn’t go to work, and she didn’t have money. My cousin came and he said to her, to my mother, “Naima, do you want to go to Israel?”. Like that. Really like that. And she said, “now! Now! I want to go right now!”. He said “okay”. He said to her, “take your children, dress them in a lot of clothes on them. And take food for them. I’ll come at 2am and I’ll take you.” He took us, and we came (over the course of) four days and four nights. We went to Persia. I can say Persia. To Persia. And we went there, and my mother took the gold she had, and put (hid) it on her stomach so they wouldn’t know that she had some gold with her. And we went there. We went there…for three…for fifteen days we were there. And then they took us to Persia. They took us to Persia, and from Persia the airplane came and brought us to Israel.