The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

Reconnecting with Lost Cousins from the "Old Country"

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Florence Schumacher, healthcare marketing executive, and her family miraculously reconnected with first cousins after the Second World War. She remembers stories she heard from these cousins about World War Two.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Florence Schumacher.

This excerpt is in English.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Escaping "Jewish Bubble" in College

2 min 54 sec

Winnepeg vs. U.S. Today: Jewish Culture, Education, and Assimilation

2 min 25 sec

"They didn't talk about the Old Country."

48 sec

How WWII and the Holocaust affected my family

1 min 53 sec

Jewish Values in the Family-- Cantorial Albums and Jewish Newspapers

2 min 1 sec

Personal Meaning of Yiddish today

1 min 54 sec

My father refused to attend my brother's bar mitzvah

2 min 10 sec

How Steinberg sense of humor helped her uncle survive the war while in the Russian Army

1 min 32 sec

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