The recording was edited at The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center
In 1968, the security service came to my house, took me and my three older sisters. They took us to the security department. Afterwards, we found out…what’s it called…they said (we were) spies. And of all those (people) who were hanged, we were part of them. I mean, from where did we know? We had someone (who was) a cousin of (Ahmad Hasan) al-Bakr. (The revolution was orchestrated by Ahmad Hasan) al-Bakr, Saddam (Hussein, and) Sa’d al-Tikriti. He was a friend of my father. My sister came crying to him. He said…he went…he said (to her), “you are spies”. She (my sister) said to me, “don’t speak!” (don’t say anything in your interrogation). I was in the women’s prison […] the manager was…Nuri Said’s secretary. She was, I mean…this manager of the women’s prison was Nuri Said’s secretary. At that time. And she made us stay…she was the manager of the women’s prison in Baghdad. So she was a bit lax with us. She could cook, twice a week people could come to see me, but my siblings…we didn’t know at all where they were.