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.

Remembering Jewish Life in Skala Through Its Yizkor Book

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Tony Hausner, an amateur genealogist and historian, describes his work on the only existing translation of the Skala yizkor book, and relates a harrowing testimony from it.

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.