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.
1937: They Gave a Directive to Round up Six Enemies of the Soviet State From Our Shtetl
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Iosif Lakhman, z"l, native Yiddish speaking journalist who spent most of his life in the Soviet Union, tells how his shtetl responded to a directive to turn over enemies of the Soviet Union and how his father, who was known to be anti-Soviet, was spared.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Iosif Lakhman.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Iosif Lakhman was born in Ukraine in 1921. Iosif died in 2017.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.