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.
1937: A Harrowing Journey to the Philippines
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Bertram Bandman, a retired professor of philosophy, describes how he traveled with his mother from Shanghai, where he was born, to the Philippines, in order to escape the Sino-Japanese War.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Bertram Bandman.
This excerpt is in English.
Bertram Bandman was born in Shanghai, China in 1930.
