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.
"When I looked at the stockings, her gold watch was in there."
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Ingrid recalls corresponding with her parents when they were in a small Polish ghetto, while she had been sent to Sweden to live with a foster family to save her from the concentration camps that her parents would soon be sent to.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ingrid.
This excerpt is in English.
Ingrid was born in Echwege, Germany in 1929.
