Ibrahim Masriya Sub-collection 1: Miscellaneous Tax Records
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2023
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A collection of tax access to land ownership in the village of Abu Shusha for a historical period extending from the mid-1930s to the Nakba. Grandfather Ibrahim Mahmoud Hassan Maṣriya, kept them in the hope of; upon returning to the village, proving his ownership of the land. These papers are part of the possessions they collected during their stay in Beit Sira after the 1948 displacement. Two years before his death, he gave them to his grandson Ibrahim Ismail Ibrahim Mohamed Hassan Maṣriya in the hope that Palestine would be free and that the land will return to his grandchildren.
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