The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive – Silence is Killing (1974)
Interviews with widows of Jews executed in Arab countries, illustrating Jewish life there in the 1960s. Simha Horesh and Odile Dallal became young widows when their husbands were summarily executed in January and August 1969 respectively by the Ba’ath regime. Charles Horesh was one of nine Jews hanged in Baghdad’s main square after a show trial indicted them for spying for Israel. Odile’s husband never underwent a trial. Neither body was returned to their families. Odile talks of the relief of escaping to Israel. Her children could play in the street without fear, “just as Arab children did.” (more…)
