Avital Ben Chorin was born in the German city of Eisenach, but found a new home in Israel. The Bedouin Abu Sitta family, on the other hand, lost its home when the state of Israel was created.
Avital Ben Chorin is an elegant, 85-year-old lady
At the tender age of 13, she emigrated to Palestine with a group of young people and without her parents. She found accommodation in a home for young German Jews in Kirjat Bialik near Haifa, a town established by German immigrants.
"We were thrilled to be allowed to help build up the country," she recalls, over 70 years after her emigration.
For Fawaz Abu Sitta, 14 May 1948 marked the beginning of his family’s expulsion from their tribal land
He grew up believing that he was a refugee who would one day return to his tribal homeland. Although he lived in Khan Yunis and went to school there, he felt that his real home was on the other side of the barbed wire fence in the state of Israel.
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