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 Experience Being a Jewish POW in World War II

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Harvey Horn, former POW in World War II, talks about narrowly escaping death, becoming a Prisoner of War in Italy (and his unique treatment because of being Jewish. )

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Harvey Horn.

This excerpt is in English.

Harvey Horn was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1923.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Borough Park in the 1930s

Baseball on the High Holy Days

"My father was a socialist, my uncle was like a patriarch of old"

His Grandma's Devotion

Connections Between People

Bragin: "I got a flavor for the world my father lived in"

Meeting a German Major

Seeing the Statue of Liberty After the War

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