The Farhud in Baghdad, Iraq was a pogrom, or “violent dispossession” carried out against the Jewish community on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, June 1 and 2, 1941.
Jewish organizations convened at the UN to declare June 1st “International Farhud Day” in commemoration of the WWII-era pogrom against the Jews of Baghdad.
Few people around the world know that the Farhud Massacre - a murderous Muslim pogrom against the Jews of Baghdad - was influenced by the Nazis. A special event at the UN will commemorate the tragedy.