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.

Explaining Maritime Service

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Al Berkowitz discusses his time in the maritime service. The USMS was a branch of the military created by men who joined up voluntarily in 1936, to serve on merchant marine vessels.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Albert Berkowitz.

This excerpt is in English.

Albert Berkowitz was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1921. Albert died in 2015.