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.

Learning Yiddish Songs From M. Shtrigler in Buchenwald

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Martin Schiller, Polish-born child survivor of the Holocaust, remembers while in Buchenwald concentration camp learning Yiddish songs of hope written by Mordechai (Motel) Strigler.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Martin Schiller.

This excerpt is in English.

Martin Schiller was born in Poland in 1933.