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.

Synagogue in Hamburg, Germany

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Jack Apfelbaum, engineer, remembers going to services with his father at one of the four synagogues in Hamburg during the 1930s.

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

This excerpt is in English.

Jack Apfelbaum was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1928. Jack died in 2018.