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In 2003, American soldiers found thousands of Jewish religious artifacts in the basement of Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters. After years of restoration in the US, many were too damaged and prepared for burial. WHAT WE LEFT BEHIND chronicles the final journey of forty-nine Torah scrolls framed in the turbulent history of the Iraqi Jewish people.

A documentary film and educational portal about the mass exodus of up to one million Jews from Arab countries and Iran in the 20th century. By The David Project, non-profit educational initiative.