10.25377/sussex.7272812.v1 Freja Howat-Maxted Freja Howat-Maxted Leila Sansour Leila Sansour Bea Brown Bea Brown Jacob Norris Jacob Norris Wadie Salah, 103 years old from al-Ta'amra (from the Salah family); Salem Salah, 103 years old from al-Ta'amra (from the Salah family); Mra'e Sha'ebat, 95 years old from Beit Sahour; and Khadeja Ramadan, 95 years old from al-Khader discussing the Ottoman period and World War I University of Sussex 2019 Ottoman Empire and World War I collection World War I in Bethlehem Bethlehem oral history Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem Locust plague 1915 Bethlehem University Middle Eastern and African History Middle Eastern and North African history 2019-08-21 07:26:49 Dataset https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Wadie_Salah_103_years_old_from_al-Ta_amra_from_the_Salah_family_Salem_Salah_103_years_old_from_al-Ta_amra_from_the_Salah_family_Mra_e_Sha_ebat_95_years_old_from_Beit_Sahour_and_Khadeja_Ramadan_95_years_old_from_al-Khader_discussing_the_Otto/7272812 <div>Wadie Salah (103 years old from al-Ta'amra) interviewed in 1995.</div><div><br></div><div>He discusses the following: locust plague and how they used to put locusts in a hole and burn them; spread of disease and starvation during World War I; people used to collect animal dung and dead animal bones and boil them in water to survive.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Salem Salah (103 years old from al-Ta'amra) </div><div><br></div><div>He discusses the following: locust plague; emigration caused by the dire economic situation during the war; people used to eat herbs to survive. </div><div><br></div><div>Mra‘e Sha‘ebat (95 years old from Beit Sahour).</div><div><br></div><div>She discusses the following: locust plague and how they multiplied because every egg contained 99 locusts; spread of disease, especially cholera; people used to travel east to find food to bring back; discusses Ottoman military conscription. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Khadeja Ramadan (95 years old from al-Khader).</div><div><br></div><div>She discusses the following: locust plague - the appearance of the the locusts and their large size; used to put the locusts in a hole and burn them; the locusts eggs meant they kept multiplying; military conscription – anyone caught trying to run away would be killed. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Original audio recording: 2 cassette tapes. <br></div><div>Transcript: word for word. <br></div><div>In the original collection at Bethlehem University these cassette tapes were categorised as File 3 of Box 13. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div>