The Olive Press

I’ve never left that hospital room in Burj El Barajneh

by Ellen Siegel

Mar 1, 2018

I was born toward the end of the Holocaust. I went to Hebrew school, marked all the Jewish holidays, and then went to a Jewish school of nursing. In 1967, I was asked to go volunteer in Israel. I didn’t know much about the politics there, but I heard there were Palestinians who were living…