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At the site of his ancestral home in Ellajon

I’m Khaled Kasab Mahameed born in Um El Fahem in 9^th of May 1962 from a family who was deported from the destroyed Palestinian village “Ellajon” – which is Armageddon – mentioned in the holy Bible:  Revelation Chapter 16.

My father Mahmood was expelled with his family and all the inhabitants of that village in 1948 from Ellajon – accompanying other  541 Palestinian villages by the Israelis when he was 17 year old where he carried in his memory, and which he told me and my other 12 brothers and sisters later, when he was returning from the Israeli jail -  there he spent a few periods of prisonment because he was claiming for the right of his fellow Palestinians.

I was six years old when I heard about the Holocaust  first time in my life. My father said, “We Palestinians Pay the price for the Atrocities the Nazis caused the Jews in the Holocaust”. From that time my mind wanted to know – what is was Holocaust?

It took for me 4 decades to decide to establish what is now called “The first Holocaust Museum in the Arab world,” after studying Sociology and Political Science in Hebrew University, business administration in Stockholm’s University and in Haifa University, and Law in East London University.

I practice Law for my living but Holocaust research and education for Palestinians in my “free time” for my “prophecy” and by my own expenditure.

In 2004 my wife Izdihar and I, with the support of our two children – Jawdat, who is now 14,  and Asil who is now 12 -  put on the internet the first website in Arabic  about the Jewish Holocaust  - which is aimed to inform Arabs about this unique crime in human History. We established “the Arab Institute for Holocaust Research and Education” in October 2004. Then in January, 2009, we inaugurated the second Holocaust museum in the world, in the Palestinian village of Ni’lin in the West Bank.

Next step is to inaugurate 5 Holocaust Museums in different 5 Palestinian towns.