Jewish Photographic memories from WWI

D. Trucks parked near Hawara (Nablus)

Photo album obtained by late archeologist Pesach Bar-Adon contains a large number of images of Palestine 90 years ago. This photo documentation is of the beginning of the collapse of the Ottoman-German army, alongside landscapes from that era.

This Photo essay is courtesy of Jewish news Ynet.

1. Saint Paulos, a Jerusalem hostel
2. The winter of 1917, military trucks on the Jerusalem-Nablus road
3. Arab women were forcibly recruited to collect stones for the paving of a road from Jerusalem to Nablus for the withdrawing Turkish army, 1917

4. A railway station with burnt coaches and engines (apparently following the British bombardment)

5. An engine hit in the shelling

6. "Staff doctor, Captain Yornes (Stabsarzt Dr.) and his assistant Dr. Habib"

7. German aircraft following belly landing

8. "The Beersheba hospital's medical staff, 1916"

9. 'Crescent; hospital headquarters in the English mission building in Jerusalem. In the middle: Prof. Omar Nasser, with German Catholic nurses. (Located today on Nevi'im St.)

10. Medical lab (no details)

11. (Photo with no caption)

12. Turkish army convoys near Nablus or Jenin

13. Austrian troops line up near Ratisbonne Monastery in Jerusalem

14. German transportation unit's honor parade for General Erich von Falkenhayn who was appointed chief of the General Staff and visited Jerusalem for the first time on May 24, 1917. Location: Outside the Jerusalem railway station. (Dr. Yigal Shefi provided additional background material)

15. Burnt German aircraft on the ground (perhaps at the a-Tina airport near Kfar Menachem or at a field near Tzemach. Dov Gavish)


Additional photos show Jerusalem before it was captured, as well as other places.