Q- Which is your home town or village in Palestine? To which District did it belong ?
- How old were you in 1948 ? What was your job (or, if the interviewee was then a child or youth: what was your father’s job?)
- How many members did your family consist of? List them one by one, giving their names, and tell me what has happened to them since the Nakba?
- What was the landscape surrounding your town/village? What was grown on the village lands? What were the traditions associated with the produce grown? For instance, during the harvest or the picking of olives? Explain, sing
- Was your town (or village) attacked by the Zionists, or did you leave out of fear? At which date?
- If your town (village) was attacked: when? how? Once or several times?
- Describe the attack, the number of dead, the number of men captured and taken away (and assassinated?)
- Did you witness the destruction of your village or was it destroyed after you left? Or does your village still stand ? If so, was it reoccupied by Palestinians from other districts of Palestine who terminated their flight there?
- Where were the armies of neighbouring Arab countries (such as Iraq and Syria) at this time? Were you protected or helped by the soldiers
- How did your flight unfold? Tell me your itinerary precisely. In which direction did you leave? Which road/path did you take?
- How many of you left? Did you leave on your own, as a family, or as a group? Who was part of this group: friends or/and neighbours?
- Which landscapes did you cross?
- Where did you end up? Who took charge of you and assisted you? Describe how you settled in the refugee camp.
- Is this your original camp? Or were you moved from one camp to another? By whom? When ? How ?
- How did you survive? Were you helped by UNRWA or were you able to work? Where?
- When you think of Palestine, what do you remember most? What image(s) does your memory hold?
- What is your strongest wish in relation to Palestine?
- If one offered you to return to Palestine, even to another village because your village does not exist any longer, what would you do?
- Do you hold documents (property deeds of houses or fields) or keys to show me so that I may photograph and film them?