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.

"Life is serendipity, you know": An amazing story of separation and reunion during WWII

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Dana Szeflan-Bell, a Holocaust survivor, tells the story of being reunited with her parents at a Russian orphange.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Dana Szeflan-Bell.

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.

Dana Szeflan-Bell was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1939.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Separated at the Train Station

1 min 59 sec

Educating Christian Teachers About the Holocaust

3 min 14 sec

Back in Poland, Murder at a Wedding

53 sec

Learning About Shoes

47 sec

"The War Wasn't Over for the Jews": Memories of Life in the DP Camp

1 min 23 sec

Religious and Cultural Life in DP Camp After WWII

1 min 38 sec

A Child Holocaust Survivor Sings a Yiddish Song About the Ghetto

3 min 39 sec

Yiddish Is My Religion

3 min 16 sec

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