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.

"She Has to Come to Grips with It": A Jewish Partisan Comes Face-to-Face with A Nazi Collaborator

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Elliott (Elye) Palevsky reflects on a particular moment from his travels to Lithuania when his mother, a partisan and Holocaust survivor, spoke with a Lithuanian who admitted to helping the Germans lead Jews onto trains, to their subsequent deaths.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Elliott (Elye) Palevsky.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Elliott (Elye) Palevsky was born in Bronx, New York in 1947.