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posted on 2019-08-21, 07:27 authored by Freja Howat-Maxted Jamila Shomali (78 years old from Beit Sahour) is interviewed with Odai Musleh.
Discusses
the earthquake of 1927; when the earthquake struck her family ran
outside the house immediately; those houses that were not built strongly
fell down; in one house there were 5 brothers trapped inside causing them
to die when the house collapsed; people were working when the
earthquake struck as it was 2pm and it was summer; talks about the great
snow of 1920 and how it covered all the houses and made life very
difficult as people could not leave their houses and had to burn wood to
keep warm.
Original audio recording: cassette tape.
Transcript: summary.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as FIle 17 of Box 21.
This
fileset exists as part of the 1920 Great Snow and 1927 Earthquake
collection within the Bethlehem University Oral History project of the
Planet Bethlehem Archive.
History
Creator
Odai MuslehContributors
Adnan Musallam, Niveen Hazboun, Laila Ayyad, Yacoub AlatrashDate
c.1992-2008Type
digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcriptSource
Bethlehem UniversityLanguage
ArabicSpatial
31.6978535,35.2197752Spatial Relation
Beit SahourIdentifier
pb_bu_gse_c19920000-0004aa.mp3, pb_bu_gse_c19920000-0004ab.pdfRights
Bethlehem University
