As the Second World War saw most of the Baghdadi Jews of Burma , as well as individual families from across Asia , flee from the Japanese Occupation of Burma the Jewish population of Calcutta , the heart of the Baghdadi network , swelled with refugees to over 5,000 strong . A small number of Jews fled the 1941 Farhud pogrom in Baghdad for Bombay . Even some of the leading Baghdadi Jewish families who had settled in Britain , chose to return to India as the Nazi Holocaust began the slaughter of European Jews . Despite India offering this place of refuge , the Second World War was the beginning of the end for old Baghdadi world
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