אוסף מרים ניסים לבית כיתאני

Miriam Kitani was born in 1899 in Zakho, Iraq. Her parents were Sasson and Rachel Kitani. In the early 1930's she married Baruch Nissim, who was also from Zakho. This was his second marriage after being widowed from his first wife. (He had 5 children from his first wife.) Miriam and Baruch had 7 children: Rachel Vardi (1932), Tzadika Vardi (1934) (she married her brother-in-law's brother, the husband of her sister Rachel), Charbia-Aviva (1940), Mahida-Rivka (1941), Baso-Batya Hoja (1944), Sabria-Yaffa (1947) and one son, Menashe born in 1949. Baruch Nissim passed away in Iraq in 1950. Miriam, his widow left Iraq with her children, after her brother arranged a permit for her to make aliyah to Israel. He registered her on her maiden name, Kitani. Haton, Baruch's daughter from his first marriage, and her children came with them to Israel. Contact between them was broken off a few years later. Miriam and her children arrived in Israel, by plane, in April 1951. They spent about one month in the Ma'abara (immigrant's camp) Sha'ar Haliyah in Atlit and from there, on May 15th 1951 they moved to the Ma'abara Talpiot in Jerusalem. She moved to Katamon Vav neighborhood on May 16th 1956. Miriam supported her family with odd jobs. She led a religious life style and her children studied in the "worker's" school in the Talpiot immigrant camp and later in the government school in the neighborhood. The aliyah permit and absorption notebook of Miriam and her children were brought to the Yad Ben Zvi Photography Archives by her daughter, Hoja. اقرأ أكثر