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.

First Impressions of America

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Lola Paley-Byron, child survivor of the Holocaust and social worker, recalls some of her first memories of the United States after her family immigrated to New York from a Displaced Persons' camp in Germany after World War Two.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Lola Paley-Byron.

This excerpt is in English.

Lola Paley-Byron was born in Siberia, Russia in 1943.