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.

Smuggling Emanuel Ringelblum's Papers from Poland to Israel

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Rose Bergman - retired teacher and daughter of Holocaust survivors - tells the story of how her father smuggled papers about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising out of Poland, to Yad Vashem in Israel.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rose Bergman.

This excerpt is in English.

Rose Bergman was born in Lodz, Poland in 1947.