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.
The People of Chelm and the Cat
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Martin Schiller, Polish-born child survivor of the Holocaust, remembers how his mother use to tell him stories about the fabled foolish Jews of Chelm. In this case, they devise a plan to get rid of a bothersome cat.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Martin Schiller.
This excerpt is in English.
Martin Schiller was born in Poland in 1933.