Ciara on Instagram: "Bertha Dallal was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1928 to a Jewish family. I had the pleasure of speaking to her last week about growing up in Iraq, a country in which she got married and had her children. She did not flee the country (with the help of Kurdish smugglers via Iran) until 1971. Bertha’s beautiful memories of Iraq were seemingly marred by the execution by hanging of her brother-in-law Isaac after a sham trial in 1969. However, there are fonder memories she carries with

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