George Emile Berouti’s Correspondence with the United Nations Regarding His Family’s Dispossessed Properties in Palestine

Below is correspondence between George Emile Berouti and the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine regarding the registration of his family’s properties in Palestine (present-day Israel) for potential compensation. George Emile Berouti, a barrister-at-law, was the son of Emile Nicolas Berouti and Victoria Fi’ani. I am deeply grateful to his descendants for sharing this correspondence with me and granting permission to publish it here.

George E. Berouti’s letter to Frank Jarvis from the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, 26 November 1965

Frank Jarvis’s reply to George E. Berouti, 15 February 1966

George E. Berouti’s second letter to the United Nations, 25 January 1978, detailing additional family properties not listed in his first letter

Hubert Noel’s reply to George E. Berouti’s second letter, 24 February 1978