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.

Helping My Least Favorite Teacher in the Vilna Ghetto

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Fania Brantsovsky - former Jewish partisan during World War Two and librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute - remembers how she and her friends would bring food to their teachers during World War II. She specifically remembers visiting her Latin teacher.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Fania Brantsovsky.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Fania Brantsovsky was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1922.