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.
Children's Stories In The Woods: Visiting My Father Among The Partisans During WWII
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Inessa Slootskin, a retired environmental protection engineer, talks about going into hiding with her family during WWII, and how her father wanted to join up with a partisan detachment.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Inessa Slootskin.
This excerpt is in English.
Inessa Slootskin was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1938.