Displacement9 April 1948
The Deir Yassin massacre
مجزرة دير ياسين
On 9 April 1948 Zionist militias attacked Deir Yassin, a village west of Jerusalem, and killed around a hundred of its people, three quarters of them women, children and old men.
Person · Educator; founder of Dar al-Tifl al-Arabi
Hind al-Husseini
هند الحسيني1916–1994
Born in Jerusalem on 25 April 1916, she taught at the Islamic Girls’ School and in 1948 helped found the Social Cooperation Society for Women, which grew to twenty-two branches. In April 1948 she found children wandering in Jerusalem’s Old City who had fled the massacre at Deir Yassin, and for them and other orphans founded Dar al-Tifl al-Arabi (the Home of the Arab Child). In 1960 she opened a museum of Palestinian popular culture within it, and in 1982 founded the Hind al-Husseini College of Arts for Girls. She died in Jerusalem on 13 September 1994.
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Took in the children who fled the massacre, and founded the Home of the Arab Child for them
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PersonHind al-Husseini was born in PlaceJerusalem
Role: Born here: 25 April 1916, Jerusalem
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Role: Took in the children who fled the massacre, and founded the Home of the Arab Child for them
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