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.

"Like Walking On Blood:" A Roots Trip to Lithuania

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Ghita Wolpowitz, a Litvak (Lithuanian Jew) who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), talks about visiting Lithuania in 2008 to visit her mother's hometown and other sites from her family's history.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ghita Wolpowitz.

This excerpt is in English.