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.

Remembering the Glukhov Pogrom

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Harriet (Hasia) Segal, z"l, native Yiddish speaker and co-host of Dos Yidishe Kol Yiddish radio show, remembers a pogrom perpetrated by Cossacks while she lived in Glukhov, Russia with her family after they were relocated from western Lithuania during World War I.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Harriet (Hasia) Segal.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Harriet (Hasia) Segal was born in 1913. Harriet (Hasia) died in 2017.