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.

A Marked Man: My Family's Experience in 1930s Vienna During Nazi Rise to Power

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Tony Hausner, an amateur genealogist and historian, talks about his father's sudden departure from Vienna in 1938.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Tony Hausner.

This excerpt is in English.

Tony Hausner was born in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom in 1942.