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

Wadie Salah (103 years old from al-Ta'amra) interviewed in 1995.<br>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><br>Salem Salah (103 years old from al-Ta'amra) <br>He discusses the following: locust plague; emigration caused by the dire economic situation during the war; people used to eat herbs to survive. <br>Mra‘e Sha‘ebat (95 years old from Beit Sahour).<br>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><br>Khadeja Ramadan (95 years old from al-Khader).<br>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><br>Original audio recording: 2 cassette tapes. <br>Transcript: word for word. <br>In the original collection at Bethlehem University these cassette tapes were categorised as File 3 of Box 13. <br><br>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>