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 in the Warsaw Ghetto

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Michael Steinlauf recounts his father's experience of the Warsaw Ghetto and the years following.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Michael Steinlauf.

This excerpt is in English.

Michael Steinlauf was born in Paris, France in 1947.