Edwin Shuker was born in 1959 in Baghdad, and lived in a community that numbered more than 200,000 people in the 1940’s, but had been reduced to just 10,000 after years of persecution and flight. By 1970, most of those 10,000 people were gone. Shuker’s family managed to escape to England in 1971, and was among the very last Jews to leave until after the fall of Hussein.

He graduated from Leeds University, and is an international businessman with a wide range of communal and charitable involvement. He is the Vice-President of the European Jewish Congress and a member of the Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

He first returned to his birthplace in 2003 as part of a delegation of 12 refugees who chartered a flight to the newly American-controlled territory.

 

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