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.

A Typical Day At The Medem Sanatorium

Watch now:

Chana Szlang Gonshor, born in 1919 in Warsaw, describes a typical day at the Medem Sanatorium, a Bund-run educational and clinical facility for children and youth at risk for tuberculosis.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Chana Szlang Gonshor.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Chana Szlang Gonshor was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. Chana Szlang died in 2021.