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.

Father's Rebellion against the yellow star

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Micha Eisenstorg tells how his parents refused to wear the yellow star during World War Two, and how his father took risks against the curfew.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Micha Eisenstorg.

This excerpt is in English.

Micha Eisenstorg was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1946.

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This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Belgian Deportation

2 min 44 sec

Doused in Jewishness

1 min 14 sec

Funny Pesakh Stories

1 min 43 sec

What my family did during the war

2 min 2 sec

"telephone numbers" on their arms

1 min 16 sec

Songs my mother used to sing

2 min 7 sec

Deportation train stopped by the Underground youth

1 min 3 sec

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