The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust Encyclopedia entry on the Farhud summarizes the two days of anti-Jewish rioting in Baghdad on 1 and 2 June 1941, its background in Nazi propaganda broadcasts and the collapse of the pro-Axis Rashid Ali government, its casualty figures and their disputed range, and its long-term effect in ending the historic Jewish community of Iraq. It serves here as an institutional reference source establishing the event's outline and its officially compiled versus popularly cited casualty figures.
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AuthorUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum 1 PublisherUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum 1 URLhttps://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-farhud 1 Assessment
Reliability TierAn institutional reference encyclopedia maintained by a major Holocaust research museum, editorially reviewed rather than a specialist monograph; used here to establish the event's outline and the range of officially compiled versus popularly cited casualty figures. Sources
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