Village memory · Palestine

Deir Yassin

دير ياسين

Jerusalem districtDepopulated 1948

Deir Yassin, a small village west of Jerusalem, was the site of the best-known massacre of the 1948 war, when Irgun and Lehi fighters killed more than a hundred villagers on 9 April 1948. Its name became shorthand for the terror that drove Palestinian flight.

• 1 person
• 2 testimonies
• 2 events
• 1 family