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.

My Father's Family Had Good Relations with the Christians During the War

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Bina Addes, Wexler Oral Historian and child of Holocaust survivors, recounts how her father's family's friendly dealings in the kerosene business led to protection by the local Christians during World War Two.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Bina Addes.

This excerpt is in English.

Bina Addes was born in Germany in 1947.

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