Frits Meyst, Galawejc (bright star) Binjamin Parents' Identity Cards,
Suleimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan 1994
The address written in the ID card of Galawejc's father, Shlomo Aziz
Hakim, born in 1897, is "the Jewish area, house 11/164." Below, it states
that her mother, Pirosa Binjamin Jacub was born in Halabja in 1926. The
Binjamin family owns several stores in Suleimaniya. During the mass
immigration to Israel, Galawejc's father refused to leave, not believing
that the Jewish state would survive. He later changed his mind, but by then
it was too late - Iraq had closed its borders.
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