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.

Sending Letters Across the Isle of Man While Interned During WWII

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Tony Hausner, an amateur genealogist and historian, describes his parents' imprisonment in British internment camps during WWII: all German and Austrian citizens, Jewish refugees and Nazi sympathizers alike, were interned.

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.