posted on 2019-08-21, 07:26authored byFreja Howat-Maxted, Leila Sansour, Bea Brown, Jacob NorrisJacob Norris
Mariam Salsa' (102 years old from Beit Sahour) interviewed by Maha al-Sleibi on 14 July 2005.
She discusses the following: military conscription during World War I; locust plague and the year of drought in 1916; the 6-month strike; life at the Rosary School under the British Mandate.
Original audio recording: cassette tape.
Transcript: word for word.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 2 of Box 12.
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.