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.

"Gettin' 'em back for ploesti."

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Albert Berkowitz remembers how his brother achieved "poetic justice" while in the air force during WWII.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Albert Berkowitz.

This excerpt is in English.

Albert Berkowitz was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1921. Albert died in 2015.

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