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.

From Europe to Israel in the mid-1950s: DP camps and refugees

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Haim Gunner, research scientist and Ottawa-born native Yiddish speaker, describes the transition camps he encountered in Southern France in 1949 on his way to Israel. He was astonished at the differing backgrounds of the refugees, and describes the boat crossing to Israel.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Haim Gunner.

This excerpt is in English.

Haim Gunner was born in 1924.