Andra generationen #38 - Jan Nygren

“We lived in a house in al-Hilwa in Jaffa, next to the Jabaliya Mosque. Jaffa was largely Arab, but we also had some neighbors who were Palestinian Jews. My parents have told me that people celebrated...

7 Tammi 1h 3min

1936 “At the beginning of the Arab uprising against the British, my father was shot in the back. A couple of years later, the British killed my uncle.” 1938 “My mother was called Husn, and she was a g...

7 Tammi 1h 7min

1934 “I was born in Irbid, in al-Urdunn, but my family comes from al-Nasira. We have lived there for 300 years. I was a wild child. When my father had guests, I would go outside and take one of the gu...

7 Tammi 35min

1948 “After the massacre in Dayr Yasin, which was a suburb of al-Quds, we were forced to flee. Most people were afraid of suffering the same fate. But my grandfather and his brother refused; they said...

7 Tammi 35min

- Min pappa Jerry föddes 1939. När han var sex månader övergav farfar familjen. De sågs aldrig igen, säger Mattias Sackrén. - Pappa kom att jobba med reklam, bland annat åt sin morbror, Nathan Sackrén...

6 Tammi 1h 51min

- Min pappa var född i Sverige och vi bodde på eleganta Östermalm. När jag kom till judiska lekskolan så minns jag att de här föräldrarna såg annorlunda ut, dom såg liksom rädda ut och kunde inte tala...

2 Tammi 55min

1945 “My mother milked the sheep and sold the milk in ‘Akka. Just a few days after she had given birth, she started working again. Our house was always full of people. We had enormous wedding celebrat...

2 Tammi 34min

1946 “There were some Jews living in my village, and we were friends with them. In Akka there were more Jews. If I got sick, I used to go to a Jewish doctor in Akka named Nathan. As children, we did n...

1 Tammi 1h 14min