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Hajj Omran (Umran), Iraq
The Kurdish village of Hajj Umran (חג' עומרן, حاج عمران, حاجى ھۆمەران, Haj Omeran, Haj Omran).
Description
In the 1970s, as Jews were escaping Iraq, they passed through Hajj Umran to get to the Iranian border.
Hajj Umran was also where Masoud Barzani was in the early 1970s and where he met and guided those Jews whom the Kurdish people were smuggling.
Hajj Umran, Iraq
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Sources
Interview with Y. Cohen.