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.

A Forged Birth Certificate

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Lola Paley-Byron, child survivor of the Holocaust and social worker, tells the story of how her father forged her place of birth in order to immigrate to America. She then recounts her son's trip to Siberia in search of her real birth certificate.

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.