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I Read Every Holocaust Memoir I Find
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Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman z"l, Yiddish poet and songwriter, tells how she feels compelled to read the memoirs of Holocaust victims who never received proper funerals - and how her own family survived out of coincidence and luck.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. Beyle died in 2013.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
