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A Jewish American woman explores the meaning of home and homeland for her own family, and for those Palestinians who were expelled in 1948

Zochrot's position paper on posting signs at the sites of demolished Palestinian villages

Zochrot at the 4th Annual Activism festival in al-Lydd

Zochrot's Annual Report 2006

Zochrot joins the Sixth Procession of Return by ADRID in Umm a-Zinat

A letter from Salman Abu Sitta on 1948 work camps for Palestinian prisoners

Description of Zochrot publications

Essays, articles, transcribed lectures

Lecture presented at Zochrot by Scott Leckie of COHRE

this is the media page

The story of al-Birwa, as told by the Refugee Committee of the village

Report on the 2003 Deir Yassin commemoration ceremony

"The houses [of Hirbet Zebabda] tell a different story, forcing us to think about what has been... [like] when we look at an old family album and see an unknown relative."

עמוד הפתיחה של האתר בתרגום לאנגלית

Index to Education category

Tel Aviv University is asked to acknowledge its past and to commemorate the Palestinian village on which grounds the university was built

Zochrot Bir'im annual camp of the displaced residents Remembering the Nakba 1948

Zochrot tour Ramle Remembering the Nakba 1948

Zochrot appeals to the Regional Planning Committee to oppose plans to build on the remains of Lifta

Report on the 2005 Deir Yassin commemoration ceremony

Fill in the Square, De-Fencing Miske

Zochrot tour to Lifta Remembering the Nakba 1948

Zochrot tour Haifa Remembering the Nakba 1948

Zochrot tour Acre Acca nakba 1948

Activities index

Readings, Catagogue, Publications, Palestinian Villages

Report on the commemoration of Nakba Day in Miske

Fill in the Square 2005 (Nakba Day) pictures and report

Following a two-year legal battle, the JNF concedes Zochrot's request to post signs commemorating the Palestinian villages of Imwas and Yalu, on which remains Canada Park was built

Eitan points to location of missing JNF sign, which disappeared only a few weeks after it was posted.

Letter to JNF on continued signposting of Palestinian sites

An article in Haaretz about Zochrot's petition to the the Hight Court of Justice

index to Database

index to Testimonies

Image of Zochrot brochure

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Response of the Military Commander in Judea and Samarea to Zochrot's High Court petition to post signs at Canada Park designating the villages of Imwas and Yalu

Excerpts of the petition submitted by Zochrot to the High Court of Justice, asking for signs to be posted at Canada Park commemorating the destroyed villages of Yalu and Imwas

Artistic protest against the fencing the school of Miske

Zochrot tour Al-Lydd Lod Nakba 1948

Zochrot tour Lifta Nakba 1948

Zochrot Return Tour Bir'im, Nakba 1948

Video Clips from various Zochrot activities

Photographing what is absent

Learning the Nakba as a condition for peace and reconciliation

Bialik and Darwish warn: A Poem is Fathomless (Haaretz, 19 Oct. 2007)

Lifta, poem by Tom Baskett

60th Anniversary of UN decision to Partition Palestine

Contact details

Zochrot tour al-haram Sayidna Ali nakba 1948

Index to Site Tours

How a contemporary Jewish museum relates the Palestinian existence of the past

Poster/photo essay by Activestills on Zochrot's commemoration ceremony at Deir Yassin, 2007

English catalogue

Zochrot's home page in English

Zochrot tour to Ijlil (Galil Yam). Remembering the Nakba 1948

"They fined my brother and I eight thousand shekels or ten days in custody so that we would stop renovating the [gravesite]. They prefer that it go to ruin. That people not remember."

This is the index to the Appeals category

Commemorative events

An in-depth look at Zochrot by Aviv Lavie

Zochrot signposting in Haifa causes some anxious speculation...

Article on the Beidas House in Sheikh Muwanis and Zochrot's efforts to preserve it

Zochrot tour to Majdal (Ashqelon). Remembering the Nakba 1948

We are on the map - Program

Zochrot at the Second Conference on the Palestinian Right of Return and Just Peace

Response by Tomer Gardi to Hakibbutz newspaper following Zochrot's tour of Kafrayn

Reflection on the appearance of a photograph from a Zochrot event in Um a-Zinat at a refugee camp in Lebanon

Zochrot tour to Isdud (Ashdod). Remembering the Nakba 1948

"I asked my father why he was crying and every time he would tell me the same story that he had dust in his eye, things like that. He wouldn’t tell me about what happened in 1948."

Zochrot tour al-Lajjun Remembering the Nakba 1948

Zochrot tour to Ayn Ghazzal. Remembering the Nakba 1948

Report on the commemoration of Nakba Day in Tel Aviv, 2004

Report on Zochrot's first official organized activity

Zochrot tour to al-Ghabassiya (western Galilee). Remembering the Nakba 1948

Zochrot tour to Mi'ar (western Galilee). Remembering the Nakba 1948

Report on Zochrot's first informal activity

Report on the commemoration of Nakba Day 2003 in Miske

Zochrot Commemoration of the Latrun villages (Canada Park): Imwas, Yalu, Beit Nuba. Remembering the Nakba

Zochrot tour to Sheikh Muwanis (Tel Aviv University). Remembering the Nakba 1948

Zochrot tour to Al-Lydd (Lod). Remembering the Nakba 1948

"There’s no gravestone, who will make a gravestone? There were even Christians and Muslims there together... Everyone in one grave. Not a grave, ash."

Activity report

Translated excerpts from the hearing where Zochrot and others presented their opposition to the Ya'ad building plan

Response of the JNF to Zochrot's High Court petition to post signs at Canada Park designating the villages of Imwas and Yalu

Zochrot joins the Fifth Procession of Return by ADRID in al-Birweh

Zochrot joins the Seventh Procession of Return by ADRID in Indur

Zochrot joins the Eighth Procession of Return by ADRID in Hawsha and Qusayr

March from Jamasin (Namir Road) to Summeil (Ibn Gvirol St.) in Tel Aviv

Index to Lecture Series

Index to Seminars and Colloquia category

Activity report

Zochrot tour to Jaffa Remembering the Nakba 1948

index to Links

index to Catalogue

"The humane Jewish hero in this story is Naftali... who told my grandfather, ‘Abed, stay and don’t leave, you have a gun and I have a gun, and the two of us will protect your house.’"

"I wish we would return to our village, I wish we had died before the expulsion."

Zochror tour Suhmata nakba

"I imagine that my plot there is a few tens of dunams, or a few hundreds maybe. But take everything. Give me just a room."

"I would go to visit the beach of Sidna Ali and the area of the mosque together with friends and with the youth movement. I never understood that until the state was established, the whole area was in fact an Arab village."

Report on Zochrot's commemoration ceremony at Deir Yassin

Report on Zochrot's commemoration ceremony at Deir Yassin

An article on Zochrot

"I felt how my grandfather was uncomfortable when he answered my questions. I understood that he doesn’t really tell his story."

"I didn’t have anything to say to her. I live in her house and she is a refugee. I didn’t know how to cope with this truth."

"There were good relations with all the Jews. There’s no difference, we spent the night at their houses, they spent the night at ours. We were more than brothers."

"Reiss, the governor, was responsible for the whole Galilee. He said he would give me a house, I could go back to work. I told him that as long as he was in military uniform I didn’t want it."

We mourn the passing of our dear friend Abdullah Zaqut

Zochrot tour Ayn Al-Mansi nakba

Address of Kassem Zeid at Zochrot’s visit to the village of Ayn al-Mansi, Feb. 18, 2006

Zochrot's Annual Report for 2004

Excerpts of an opinion piece on a conference at Tel Aviv University on the Right of Return

On Zochrot's architectural colloquium on the Palestinian villages of Tel Aviv, and architectural plans for Sheikh Muwannis (Tel Aviv University) and Summeil (central Tel Aviv)

Remembering Deir yassin 2006

Almost Forgot

Mysterious posters show up in major Israeli cities on Nakba Day, 2006

Zochrot Tour Miske nakba

Zochrot joins the 9th Procession of Return by ADRID to Um a-Zinat

Report on "Return to Lifta" with Zochrot, UYAC, and Badil

Zochrot Amqa Tour Nakba Arab-Jewish women dialogue group

Zochrot Golan Tour Nakba

High Court decision regarding the payment of Zochrot's legal expenses regarding Canada Park

Objection to Yehud building plan

Text of Objection to Yehud Building Plan

Zochrot's position on the current war

About Zochrot

Conference on the preservation of Lifta

Zochrot Beersheba Tour Nakba 1948

Sign vandalized

Protest the war in Lebanon

test page

On Zochrot's flier-dropping action to protest the Second Lebanon War

Destroyed Miske Schoolhouse

"We want our lands back. There is no justice... The government wants territory without people."

On Zochrot's efforts to raise funds for the refugees in Lebanon

Protest against JNF display

Zochrot Remembering the Nakba 1948 HIttin

Zochrot Tarshiha Tour Nakba

International Nakba Project - Let us ALL remember the Nakba

Article about Zochrot, following an evening to mark 5 years since the organization began

View a presentation on the Nakba in five units (powerpoint)

zochrot ramle tour nakba

Zochrot tour A-Shejera nakba

Imwas 23.6.07

Zochrot Ramle Tour nakba

Zochrot kafrayn tour nakba

Al-Malha 28.12.2007

Response to an article in Hakibbutz regarding Zochrot's tour to Kafrayn

Land Day, 2006

On JNF's decision to post signs at Canada Park following pressure from Zochrot; one in a series of Haaretz articles about this struggle

International Nakba Project - Let us ALL remember the Nakba!

International Nakba Project - Let us ALL remember the Nakba

International Nakba Project - Let us ALL remember the Nakba

Ajami (Jaffa) 8.9.07

Zochrot tour to Hittin on Land day, 30 March 2007

Zochrot's 5-year birthday event

"We stayed in the fig orchards until nightfall because we were afraid of the military. By chance, the military governor came by to eat some figs. My uncle's wife said that the better figs were higher up, not there. That way she sent him away and we were saved."

International Nakba Project - Let us ALL remember the Nakba

Report on Zochrot's activity to commemorate the massacre at Deir Yassin.

Report on Zochrot's activity to commemorate the massacre at Deir Yassin

Report on Zochrot's commemoration ceremony to mark 59 years since the massacre at Deir Yassin

On Zochrot's fundraising initiative in response to the second Lebanon War

Article on street screening of Nakba testimonies by the "Almost 60" coalition

Zochrot's Annual Report for 2005

Zochrot at student seminar Nakba 1948

Nakba Day 2007, Miska

Zochrot at the 10th annual Procession of Return to al-Lajjun, 2007

Zochrot Statement on the Nakba and the Right of Return, 2007

Article on Nakba Day street activity by the Nakba 60 coalition Bat Shalom, New Profile, and Zochrot

Index page: Art gallery exhibiting works related to the Nakba, at Zochrot's Learning Center

Order Has Not Been Restored - Exhibition by Einat Lider

Street screenings of testimonies and photos of the Nakba by New Profile, Bat Shalom and Zochrot for international Nakba Day 2007

Article on the website of Mafdal (the National Religious Party) commending police action to stop Zochrot's street screening activity for International Nakba Day

Shlomit Bauman - Channel AlDuwara

Right of return conference

Procession of Return to the Villages of Latrun

Opposition to Building Plan in Summayl

It was only after the JNF agreed to the demands of the Zochrot organization and posted signs in the park about two villages, Yalu and Emmaus, that their existence first became known to hikers. But since their posting, someone has already made sure to tear down one of the signs and vandalize the other.

Sedek Magazine

Birem 9.8.2007

נכסי פליטים וזכות השיבה- הרצאה מאת סקוט ליקי

Map of Tel Aviv and Its Palestinian Villages

JNF signs will mention estroyed Palestinian Villages

Salman Abu Sitta

Letter to the University of Western Ontario

Right of Return Conference 22-24/6/2008

return conference 22-6-2008

Ariella Azoulay

Awesome Weekend - 31 July 2009

Ingrid Jaradat Gesner

Annual Reports

Third Issue of Sedek Magazine

Tour to the village Ajjure 25.10.08

Kuwyikat 6.9.2008

Wakim Wakim

Umm Burj 16.8.2008

A Tour of Khirbet Alaluz

Article about Zochrot in HaZofe - bulletin of the religious Zionism

Text written by Rula Awwad-Rafferty following the visit to the village Qula

Tour to the village Ayn Karim, 29 November 2008

A tour to Al-Ras Al-Ahmar while Gaza is under attack, 27.12.08

The Nakba of al-Naqab (the Negev) A tour to al-Araqib Saturday, 12.12.2009

The (In)Human Spatial Condition - Exhibition

Palestinian Houses in West Jerusalem - Photographs and Stories

Encountering the Nakba - a learning packet - the brochure

Postcards for Gaza

Report on a tour to the village Simsim on 28/3/09

Deir Yassin 2009

Nakba Day 2009, Tel Aviv

Alsumeriyya 25.4.2009

Nakba Day 2009, Miske

I almost forgot, 2009

Constituent Violence, 1947-1950

“Where will you be for the holiday? Are you going to the celebrations in town? To a picnic in the Carmel Forest? It’s really beautiful there! Won’t you come? Everyone’s going.”

Text presented by Eitan Bronstein in a Memory & Trauma conference, June 2009

“Min wayn jaye inti?” Where the hell do you come from? - Repression of the Nakba and post-trauma among Jews in Israel

Ohne Erinnerung keine Zukunft Die jüdisch-israelische Initiative Zochrot und ihre ungewöhnliche Gegengeschichtsarbeit

Report on the tour to ad-Damun, August 15 2009

First training seminar on Encountering the Nakba – A Learning Packet for educators

Report on tour toKufr `Inan 3.10.09

How do we say Nakba in Hebrew? Reflections on teaching Jews in Israel about the Nakba Written by Amaya Galili September,2009

"SNAPSHOTS" 11 2009

Tour to the al-Ghubayyat villages Saturday, 20.3.2010

Return to the homeland In response to “Who said the right of return,” by Akiva Eldar (“Haaretz,” 12.3.10

Israeli Jews and the one-state solution

Deir Yassin 2010

al-Manshiyyah tour 24/4/2010

The Key by Ido Tzvi Eli 5 2010

Israel’s part in the execution of the right of return, without it committing suicide By Dr. Yair Boimel

By Romi Yitzchaki

Dear Palestinians… by Ariela Azulay

A request from the Palestinian Refugees by Eitan Bronstein

From the Rear View Window Michael Yaakovson

Natan Shalva

Demande aux réfugiés palestiniens Eytan Bronstein

The Nakba of the Left

Almost everything that has been said about the Nakba in the realm of Hebrew poetry exists in "Sedek" Magazine

The Poignant Question

Tours to Palestinian Villages