Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Our guide stops us at a display near a Jewish museum which includes this poster. It shows the Jordanian army expelling all Jews from Jerusalem (1948) and also the photo (near the bottom) of a young girl who had run back to her home get her missing shoe. The Jordanians found her and pushed her out the gate of the Old City, with the others. Many years later, the British photographer who had taken these (and many other) photos of the times, came back and tried to find the now-older people who had been in his pictures. He found the young girl and in a "where are they now" story, he published current photos of everyone, including this girl. Our guide, who had been showing people the original display and picture, saw the current photo of the woman and realized that the young woman in the original picture....is now her mother-in-law. Quite a story.


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