The story of the fourth painting and what it has to do with Shavuot. One is that these were three very large paintings. The second is that paintings in which he documented Baghdad, his hometown. And there is another reason. This record was of an event I had not heard of until then. He doesn't speak at home. These paintings were also special to the community of Iraqi expatriates. They described a massacre that took place among the Jewish community with the encouragement of the pro-Nazi regime that ruled Iraq at the time. The difficult event took place on the holiday of Shavuot on the dates 1-2.6.1941. And hundreds of Jews were murdered and thousands were injured and much property was looted. As far as is known, Avi is the only painter who witnessed this massacre, survived it and recorded it in his diary
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