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.

Visiting Childhood Home in Bialystok

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Leo Melamed - child survivor of the Holocaust and former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange - remembers returning to his hometown of Bialystok as an adult and describes his childhood home there.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Leo Melamed.

This excerpt is in English.

Leo Melamed was born in Bialystok, Poland in 1932.