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.

Cherished Yiddish Letters from My Family in Wartime

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Gunther Rice, child survivor of the Holocaust, was separated from his parents and sister at age fourteen, but the family corresponded through letters. Gunther remembers how each family member wrote and what they discussed.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gunther Rice.

This excerpt is in English.

Gunther Rice was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1924. Gunther died in 2020.