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.

Give Them Passage to the United States! They Are on the Endangered List: Escaping Europe

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Leo Melamed - child survivor of the Holocaust and former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange - described his family's journey out of Europe during World War II and the reason his family was able to get passage to the US from Japan.

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.