Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

Enzo Sereni, Shmariyahu Gutman and Ezra Kadoori, who were in charge of Zionist indoctrination, illegal immigration and self-defense, respectively, were sent to Baghdad as emissaries, with the task of turning Iraqi Jews into Zionists.
Ezra Kadoori’s self-defense group, Shura, was the most successful, encompassing most of the 500 members of the movement after the first year.
Enzo Sereni cites: “since they do not understand the Zionist and moral value of labour—and actually hold physical labour in contempt—the major problem facing us in educating Iraqi Jews is labour-oriented education.”
Enzo Sereni cites: “they feel national and human dignity but they have no Zionist thinking, or even a Zionist instinct."

On May 15, 1944, Enzo Sereni was parachuted into Northern Italy, and was captured immediately.
On November 18, 1944, according to records, he was shot in Dachau concentration camp.