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.

Mother Was Worried About Something Called "The War": Trying To Comprehend WWII As A Small Child

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Having left Germany for the safety of France, Eva Apfelbaum recalls 1939 as the year her brother and father were arrested and she was sent to live with other German refugees in the South of France.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eva Apfelbaum.

This excerpt is in English.

Eva Apfelbaum was born in Nordhausen, Germany in 1928.

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Other video highlights from this oral history

"I'll Be Your Mother": Remembering The Beginnings Of Vichy France

1 min 35 sec

An Unexpected Discovery: Reconnecting With Father During WWII

2 min 13 sec

Leaving Vichy France: "Relieved, but on the other hand I felt French"

6 min 40 sec

Felt Like We Could Just As Soon Be in Germany: Harrassment of Refugees in US During WWII

1 min 51 sec

Leaving Germany in 1933

3 min 38 sec

Non-Jewish Socialist German Refugees During WWII

1 min 36 sec

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