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.

Records of My Ancestors: My Trip to Poland

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Sonia Pressman Fuentes, co-founder of the National Organization for Women, describes her trip to Poland and searching the archives of Piltz for information on her parents.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sonia Pressman Fuentes.

This excerpt is in English.

Other video highlights from this oral history

"Eh, Let It Be Already": Abortion in Pre-War Berlin

3 min 55 sec

A Mother's Broken Promise, An Uncle's Gambled Dowry, A Hat Full of Bullet Holes: The Beginning of My Parent's Marriage

11 min 54 sec

A Family Saved from Deportation by Camille Huysmans

2 min 9 sec

"It Never Left Me": My Return Trip to Germany

4 min 49 sec

Passengers of The Red Star Line: The Only Survivor at the Museum Opening

7 min 46 sec

My Brother's Intuition: How We Left Germany in 1933

5 min 5 sec

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