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.

"I'll Be Your Mother": Remembering The Beginnings Of Vichy France

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Eva Apfelbaum, artist and educator, remembers the fall of France and the start of the Vichy government before recollecting memories of being prepared to lose her mother and meeting Orthodox refugees.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eva Apfelbaum.

This excerpt is in English.

Eva Apfelbaum was born in Nordhausen, Germany in 1928.