Mahmoud al-Hamdan, aged 105 from al-Shawawra near Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

POOR QUALITY AUDIO. Mahmoud al-Hamdan (105 years old, born 1900, from al-Shawawra) interviewed by Fadwa Abu al-Hour on 27 June 2005. He discusses the following: he was a young boy when World War I started; war destroyed so many things; when the locusts came they arrived from the villages to the east and destroyed everything in their wake; in al-Shawawra the people used to eat the chickens and the horses particularly in the year of the drought in 1916; diseases spread; there was only one doctor from Bethlehem who used to come to a specific place in Beit Sahour to treat people for free; people used to eat orange peel; the residents of al-Shawawra used to go to the Dead Sea to collect salt to sell. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as FIle 3 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.【音频质量欠佳】马姆杜德·哈马丹（Mahmoud al-Hamdan），105岁，1900年出生，来自沙瓦乌拉（al-Shawawra），于2005年6月27日接受法德瓦·阿布·胡尔（Fadwa Abu al-Hour）的采访。他谈及以下内容：第一次世界大战爆发时他尚且年幼；战争摧毁了大量财物；蝗灾从东部村庄蔓延而来，所经之处万物尽毁；1916年旱灾之年，沙瓦乌拉的民众尤其以鸡肉与马肉为食；疫病大范围蔓延；当时仅有一名来自伯利恒的医生，会定期前往贝特萨胡尔（Beit Sahour）的指定地点免费为民众诊疗；民众曾以橙皮充饥；沙瓦乌拉的居民曾前往死海（Dead Sea）采集食盐售卖。原始录音载体为盒式磁带。转录文本为摘要版。该盒式磁带被归类为伯利恒大学（Bethlehem University）馆藏第12箱第3号档案。此数据集隶属于行星伯利恒档案馆（Planet Bethlehem Archive）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”专题馆藏。