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.

Learning About the Holocaust at Age 14

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Dorothy Goldstone, a Wexler Oral Historian at the Yiddish Book Center, recounts the shock and confusion she felt when learning, through a novel, about the Holocaust, at age 14.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Dorothy Goldstone.

This excerpt is in English.

Dorothy Goldstone was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1948.

Other video highlights from this oral history

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2 min 1 sec

Thanks to Prof. Yerushalmi, Excitement Over Jewish History

2 min 39 sec

Bathtubs and A Love Child: A Colorful Jewish Family History

2 min 25 sec

"The Dream of Assimilation:" Shrimp for Kol Nidre, Pizza for Yom Kippur

2 min 37 sec

A Confusing Experience of Being Jewish within the Assimilationist Atmosphere of the 1950s in the U.S.

3 min 47 sec

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