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.

How I Came to Join the United Partisan Organization (FPO) 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 became involved with the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO), the United Partisan Organization in the Vilna Ghetto.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Fania Branstovsky [Jocheles].

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Fania Branstovsky [Jocheles] was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1922. Fania died in 2024.

Other video highlights from this oral history

The Sofye Gurevich Secular Yiddishist School in Pre-WWII Vilna

Helping My Least Favorite Teacher in the Vilna Ghetto

Uniforms and Antics: Fania Bransovsky Recalls Pre-WWII Student Life in Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania

We Would Embrace Even A Stranger: Vilna in the First Days After World War II

Why I Stayed in Vilna After the War

My Part in the Creation of the Famous "Black Book" About the Holocaust

Vilna, Post-WWII: How We Found Out Who Had Survived

I'm Alive Thanks To the Help of a Young Polish Man

How I Became the Librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute

Because Those Who Died Can't Tell These Stories: Fania Bransovsky Explains Why She Continues to Work Into Her 90s

Purim at the Sofye Gurevich School

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