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.

Interned as an Enemy Alien in Japan During WWII

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Bertram Bandman, a retired professor of philosophy,describes his time in an Japanese internment camp, where he was remanded because he had been the ward of an American family living in the Phillipines.

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.