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.

"It's Not A Storm, It's A War!": Remembering The Beginning Of WWII In Brest-Litovsk

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Inessa Slootskin, a retired environmental protection engineer, describes the invasion of Brest-Litovsk in 1939.

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.