Posted by Webmaster on MAY-7-2001

Sign Lifta's Guest Book - سجل الزوار

Hi folks,

I'm making my sixth trip to the West Bank later this month, and my plan is to also spend some time in Lifta photographing and surveying the village in an effort to visually recreate it online. If anyone reading this has pictures they'd like to share (buildings, keys, deeds, family members, or whatever), or can describe the location of their home in Lifta, or would like to contribute a brief blurb about their memories of Lifta, please contact me at aaronjlevitt@gmail.com. It may take me a while, but I'll try to link each of these materials to the home of the person/family in question, so visitors to the website can get some feeling of what was lost when the people of Lifta were driven into exile.

Regards,
Aaron

been al aen wa been al waad lifta ya balad alagdad
waad menna wa meaad waad mena wahna beaad
lanergaaalek ya balady lifta walaw ala zaman alahfad hata

This is a Very interesting website, you find out who your relatives are and can relate to this website more than any other website. My name is Roa Mazen Zeyna, I am from the hamoula of Safaran, I've only been to Palestine once or twice about ten years ago and i wish to go back there one day. I thank all those that helped in the creation of this site.

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It is a great webside thanks to everyboy whom support and built this

please sign my name in this list thank you

My name is Hanaa Jaber and both of my parents (Ali & Naheel Jaber) are from Lifta. I actually found this site when I was planning on visiting Palestine and I was wondering if anyone really knew or had heard of Lifta. I was in complete shock when I found this site. I was so happy to know that Lifta is still not gone and that Lifta's memory still lives on. And I love that this book gets to connect all of us from all around the world. I hope to hear from everyone and I will definitely be back to this site. I hope everyone receives this message in great health. take care.
Salam.

hey all
im a7mad shannak from lifta to this is my first time i saw that site but i loved it and wish to keep in touch with all of you salaaaaaaam

alslam aliekum.. my late mother(may ALLAHs mercy be with and upon her)was from lifta(al najjar) family... we loved and respected our (ikhwal)...i was in lifta (after 1967) few times... i saw the houses of my family...i have few pictures... next time you visit, look at lifta , smile. read Alfateha,and you will never forget that you belong to lifta and lifta belongs to you...they used to say (next year in jerusalem).. so let us say (NEXT YEAR IN PALESTINE)and dont forget to teach your sons to say it ..andthink it...

Hi I married into a Palestinian family that is from Lifta. Do any of you know of Insaf Qasem of Ali Awad (my in- laws)? Mahmoud Qasem, Hilwa Khalif? Please let me know.

its really great to know that there is a great website about lifta

hi every body that's great site and i love it
shokran keteer 3ala had el site fio ashya2 mashoftha be7yaty

Thanks so much for this website.
You made us so proud of our origion, history & roots in our beloved Palestine.
Thanks again & best regards

Salmai for Lifta, Jerusalem (Al-Quds), and Palestine. To it's people to everywhere they go. We shall never forget you Lifta. Great web site...Amazing efforts.

Salam,
wallahi its nice to see such a site with all these nice pictures and articles about lifta and its history!!!
i've been always proud to be a liftawi and i will always be!
i pray to God that one day i would live in lifta while its free!
thank u all for the effort
O God Bless

I am so proud to be from Lifta the village of fathers and grandfathers which is now under the occupation , my self I born out side our lovely Lifta but still I love it and let my sons and all new generation to remember Lifta as our original village .

HII ALL
THIS MAHMOUD THE SONE OF MOUNJED SIYAM
I AM IN AMMAN
I SAY HII TO EVERY LIFTAWII
HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOOOON
UNITEDSTATESOF_LIFTA@HOTMAIL.CO,

Thanks for a great website

Iam originaly from LIFTA ,iam very proud that iam liftawi,i love and respect my people from lifta because they are friendly and nice people .

god plus lifta and it's people

Sami abed ahmad jabr (sufran )

HI
WHEN FIRST SAW THIS SITE IT WAS BY ACCIDENT BUT AFTER THAT I USED TO CHECK THIS SITE . I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER SEE LIFTA JUST HEAR ABOUT IT THIS SITE UNABLE ME TO SEE SOME PIC OF MY VILLAGE THANX FOR ALL

wow this is awsome. At least this is one place palestinians are free. :*

Thanks for a great website. My father's family was forced out of Lifta in 1948. As Palestinians, it is important that we continue to share our stories with the world. I've recently made a documentary film about my family's experience: www.belongingthefilm.com Keep sharing the memories.

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its nice to find a site for us thx god and nice to see
some pictures of our villiage but hope we can see it one day by real and maybe its great to find leftawya friends here it will be greater
lama m3alla

I am a lawyer living & working in Ramallah. Over here, it is about fifteen kelometers far from lifta.
I hope that one day we can go back to lifta.

Hi There,

I could not hold myself without expressing my very deep appreciation and greafullness of the efforts you are spending in collecting these valuable informative details about palestine and its volleages.

Am from a small village called Lifta, located beside Jerusalim.

Thank you and good luck, and I would be more than happy to conribute in this honorable activity.

I do want to post an appeal for all of you who are from Lifta and any other palestinian village or town to go to Wikipedia.org and start setting up such details over there and I would appreciate if PalestineRemembered helped us by sharing the details posted on their web site.

Hi all
Its really great to see this website,
thanks to show pictures.

hello;

hope will meet one day again and soon in our great and beloved Lifta.My graandmother game the key to her house in LIfta

HELLO! I am very honored to find this website and I'm proud to respond to this guest book.My grandfather was born in Lifta and then left to Jordan and resumed the rest of his life there with never going back,it is sad that i would love to go there but Lifta is no more!

Wa Salam to everyone!!!! wow when i found this website i must say i was very excited! my father was born in lifta, along with his family. in 1948, he and his family were forced out of lifta, and then grew up in deir debwan and bietin. Nobody from my family has really gone back, we only have a few relatives now in jerusalem though. There are some people who have signed this guest book who father recognizes their families, thats exciting. someday i hope to travel to lifta, i have seen pictures of it, and its soo beautiful! someday inshallah i will bring my father and his family back there.

- Rasmyah Hammoudeh

welcome to lifta ilove you tooooooooooooooooooo

Al-ssalamoalikom,

My parent were born in lifta. I have seen Lifta when I was very young the memory still in my head about the beauty of my village specially the falling water. But at the same time you feel the sadness form what had happend to Lifta from destruction.

thanks to everyone