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.
Carol Tellerman sings "The Ghetto" by Kasriel Broydo
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Carol Tellerman, z"l, member of the Hazomir Chorale of pre-WWII Lodz, Poland, sings "The Ghetto," a song written for her by Kasriel Broydo, a ghetto writer. She performed it at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum when Arthur 'Szmul' Zygielbaum - whom Carol knew personally - was posthumously awarded the Chancellor's Medal by the Polish Secretary of State.
Learn more about the song here: http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/ghettos/vilna/ghetto-x266b/
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Carol Tellerman.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Carol Tellerman was born in Chelm, Poland in 1922. Carol died in 2015.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
