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.
I'm Alive Thanks To the Help of a Young Polish Man
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Fania Brantsovsky - former Jewish partisan during World War Two and librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute - tells how a young Polish man helped her escape into the forest during World War II and reflects on the complicated relationship between Jews and non-Jews.
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.