That name, Yom HaGirush, marks when Jewish communities across many countries were once again dispossessed but became repossessed in the free nation of Israel.

If the conference surprised many, the reaction to it did not—arrest warrants, death threats and wanted posters targeting participants. Still, it brought together more than 300 Iraqis interested in forging ties with Israel.

Daniel Sasson recalls Iraq's plans to put all of the country's 150,000 Jews into ghettos, mimicking the Nazis' genocidal campaign in Europe.

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.

Israel corrects an historical injustice, officially recognizing for the first time the plight of almost one million Jews forced to flee their homes in Arab territories.