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.

"Ver Iz Nishtu (Who is Not Here)": Growing Up as a Child of Holocaust Survivors

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Eleanor Reissa, singer, recalls how her knowledge of the Holocaust and her family's survival came to her through the feeling of loss she experienced when they discussed loved ones who were no longer around, and explains how she perceived herself and her family as "other".

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eleanor Reissa.

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.

Eleanor Reissa was born in Brooklyn, New York.