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.

"She Was Worth a Beating": Falling in Love Through a Fence in a Concentration Camp

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Miriam Slater, retired professor of European history, remembers a couple she knew in her youth who fell in love in a concentration camp.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Miriam Slater.

This excerpt is in English.

This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Yiddish in the Knitting Store

1 min 32 sec

A Very Christian, Very Male Education

2 min 17 sec

"We Have No Facilities for Women": Sexism at Princeton University

1 min 37 sec

"I Don't See Your Initials Carved in this Chair!"

1 min 32 sec

Sheep on a School Bus

2 min 16 sec

"They See You as a Rich Jew": Being a Jew in America Today

1 min 24 sec

"Give Us a Cull!"

2 min 23 sec

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