We had a comfortable life, my father was a banker and my brother worked with him in the business. Every knock at the door you felt was someone coming to take you away. My oldest brother Faoud was studying in England, but the Government later said any Jews studying abroad must return or have their citizenship revoked, so my father told him to stay. We lived in Basra, me, my mother, my father, my younger sister and my brother Daoud. “We lived in Iraq all our lives, parents, grandparents… Jews were not allowed to leave the country, not even someone dying of cancer. It’s raw and unedited, and best that way. The following is Faiza’s free-flowing account of what happened in her own words. Get The Jewish News Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories “I’ve spent the last few days thinking about things I haven’t thought about for 50 years, things I had put away.” “That’s why it was so long to do it,” she says, explaining the mysteriously tough scheduling. Much of what she tells me over the next hour, in an emotional fight through tears and memory, she is yet to tell her own family.
Faiza was 20 years old, living at home in Basra while studying at the city’s university, when Daoud – or David – was taken.
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