Nakba #53 - Subhia Salman al-Natur

1939 “My father was a farmer and we had cows. He sold the milk. My mother was from the city, from Jaffa, so she never milked the cows—neither did I. My father died when I was three years old.

At that time my mother had just given birth to my little brother, Khalil. When I was a girl, Mahmud, my older brother, did not allow me to go very far from our house. He was a difficult person.

The only time I was allowed to leave the house was when I accompanied my mother to visit her brother. In the village there was a school for boys. Teaching took place in a tent.