Loyalty

Frieda Kabs, an unmarried German woman, lived in Bayt al-Umma in Egypt for 37 years. She taught Saad Zaghloul German and English, and when war broke out in 1914 she traveled to her own country to do her duty toward it, and there she endured poverty and privation, while the Mother of the Egyptians sent her every week a box of clothes and sweets... She was present at the death of Saad and of the Mother of the Egyptians, who bequeathed to her a pearl necklace worth 10 thousand pounds — and Frieda presented it to the Egyptian government. Nokrashy appointed her director of the Bayt al-Umma museum...