Woman from Beit Sahour, aged 88 from Beit Sahour discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Woman (88 years old, born 1912, from Beit Sahour) interviewed by Shireen Qumsieh on 27 November 1998. She discusses the following: starvation during World War I; al-Husseini told people not to sell their property to Jewish settlers but Jews would beat people who refused to sell their land; how bad the war between Britain and the Ottoman Empire was; ‘seferberlik’ (Ottoman military conscription); people used to search horse dung for bits of barley to eat; under the British Mandate people were forced to sell their houses to foreigners without knowing that it was for Jewish settlers. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 11 of Box 8. This fileset exists as part of the Ottoman Empire and the World War I collection within the Bethlehem University Oral History Project of the Planet Bethlehem Archive.

1998年11月27日，希琳·库姆谢赫（Shireen Qumsieh）对一名1912年出生、时年88岁的贝特萨胡尔女性进行访谈。受访者谈及以下内容：第一次世界大战期间的饥荒；侯赛尼家族曾告诫民众切勿向犹太定居者出售房产，但拒绝出售土地者会遭到犹太人殴打；英国与奥斯曼帝国之间的战争战况之惨烈；“塞费伯利克”（seferberlik，奥斯曼帝国军事征兵制度）；民众曾捡拾马粪中的大麦粒以果腹；英国委任统治时期，民众被迫将房屋卖给外国人，却对此举实为服务犹太定居者毫不知情。原始录音载体为盒式磁带，转录文本为摘要版。该盒式磁带被归入伯利恒大学馆藏第8箱第11号文件。此数据集隶属于“行星伯利恒档案馆”旗下伯利恒大学口述历史项目中的“奥斯曼帝国与第一次世界大战”馆藏系列。