%0 Generic %A Howat-Maxted, Freja %A Sansour, Leila %A Brown, Bea %A Norris, Jacob %D 2019 %T Hassan Abd al-Latif, aged 77 from Battir; Khalil Abu Hassan, aged 78 from Battir; and Abd al-Hamid Abu Na'ma, aged 105 from Battir, discussing the Ottoman period and World War I %U https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Hassan_Abd_al-Latif_aged_77_from_Battir_Khalil_Abu_Hassan_aged_78_from_Battir_and_Abd_al-Hamid_Abu_Na_ma_aged_105_from_Battir_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271138 %R 10.25377/sussex.7271138.v1 %2 https://sussex.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/13398020 %2 https://sussex.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/13398023 %K Ottoman Empire and World War I collection %K World War I in Bethlehem %K Bethlehem oral history %K Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem %K Locust plague 1915 %K Bethlehem University %K Middle Eastern and African History %K Middle Eastern and North African history %X
Hassan Abd al-Latif (77 years old from Battir), Khalil Abu Hassan (78 years old from Battir), and Abd al-Hamid Abu Na'ma (105 years old from Battir) interviewed by Jamila Abd al-Latif on 17 June1995.

They discuss the following: before World War I people used to live from their agriculture and the situation was okay then after the war everything became worse; many of the village men went to war and some never came back; locust plague and starvation; some people ran away to evade military conscription.

Original audio recording: cassette tape.
Transcript: summary.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 13 of Box 8.

This fileset exists as part of the Ottoman Empire and World War I collection within the Bethlehem University Oral History project of the Planet Bethlehem Archive.
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