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.

My Parents' Community In America After Escaping Nazi Germany

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Eva Brown - child survivor and trauma psychologist - describes her parent's social lives in Queens, New York, and reflects on their psychological and emotional reactions and recoveries from life in Nazi Germany.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Eva Metzger Brown.

This excerpt is in English.

Eva Metzger Brown was born in Fuerth, Germany. Eva Metzger died in 2022.