IRAQ

After World War I including the Hadjin, gathered in Baghdad. The Hadjin community consisted of 347 people, including people from Shar and Rumlu. The Hadjin people were engaged in baking, shoemaking, blacksmithing, accounting, tailoring, and other crafts. The Baghdad branch of the Hadjin Patriotic Reconstruction Union was founded in 1923. The main goal of the union was to help children from needy families by covering their education expenses, and most importantly, to find Armenian children kept in Arab families in the Arab deserts, save them from Islamization, and ensure their future lives.