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.

Ties That Bind: The Global Network of a Polish Shtetl's Descendants

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Marlene Hait, raised in a Yiddish home by survivors of the Holocaust, describes her family's hometown of Chmelnik, Poland and the landsmenshaftn (communal organizations) and bonds which have remained tight and now stretch across the globe.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Marlene Hait.

This excerpt is in English.

Marlene Hait was born in Landsberg am Lech, Germany in 1946.