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.

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

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Dana Szeflan-Bell, a Holocaust survivor, recounts a story of continued antisemitism in a post-war displaced persons camp in Austria.

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.