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.

"Compared With The Ghetto, It Wasn't Bad": Memories Of Being A Partisan In The Woods Around Vilna

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Liba Augenfeld - Vilna native, former Jewish partisan and prominent Yiddish cultural activist after immigrating to Montreal - remembers her time as a partisan during World War II.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Liba Augenfeld.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Liba Augenfeld was born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1923. Liba died in 2018.