The Omar Abdel-Karim Ameereh Collection
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PERIOD

1936 - 2003

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BIOGRAPHY

Omar Abdel-Karim Ameereh "Abu Munther" was born in the depopulated village of Deir Aban on 3 September 1947. His family moved during the 1948 Nakba to Bethlehem, living in Aida Palestinian Refugee Camp. Ameereh finished secondary school in 1967, and in the wake of the outbreak of the June 1967 War, he left Palestine with his family to Jordan but did not settle there, as he returned to live in the Camp after a few months. He graduated from the Teachers' Training Centre on 3 July 1969, majoring in English, and then obtained a Bachelor’s degree in English language and Literature from Bethlehem University on 10 August 1978. Ameereh worked as an English language teacher in UNRWA schools from 1969 until May 2005 and died on 15 October of the same year in Aida Camp.

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DESCRIPTION

The collection contains documents from the depopulated village of Deir Aban, located in Jerusalem District, and others from Aida Palestinian Refugee Camp near Bethlehem, including purchase contracts in the name of Abdel-Karim Hasan Ameereh for houses, plots of land, and shops between 1931 and 1946. It also contains some tax payment receipts for Ameereh's properties in the 1930s and 1940s in the village of Deir Aban. The collection takes us to the life of the son, Omar Abdel-Karim Ameereh, who was born in 1947 and sought refuge with his family in Aida Camp. It includes his school and university certificates, his certificates in teacher preparation courses, others about passing international English language exams, proofs of his work in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1969 until 2005, his children's school certificates, his notebook, papers related to his health insurance and prescriptions, and newspaper clippings mourning his death on 15 October 2005.

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The Omar Abdel-Karim Ameereh Collection

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