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.

Religious and Cultural Life in DP Camp After WWII

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Dana Szeflan-Bell, a Holocaust survivor, talks about life in an Austrian refugee camp immediately after WWII and how she discovered her Jewish identity.

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.

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