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.
My Sister's Burial (Burying Her Sister in Israel)
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Lili Bermant z"l describes traveling to Israel to bury her sister at a small Moshav. A surprising process for her, she remembers having to deliver the casket all the way from Switzerland and subsequently having the Israeli police inspect the body for weaponry. She discusses the ride to the Moshav, along the Occupation Wall, and remembers feeling saddened by its existence.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Lili Bermant.
This excerpt is in English.
Lili Bermant was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1927. Lili died in 2011.
