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.
Memories of Fleeing: from Białystok to a Russian Work Camp
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Jacob Apelberg, Holocaust survivor and translator of Yiddish poetry, tells his journey out of Poland after his grandparents pass away. He and his mother are removed from a Bialystock synagogue and put on a train that takes them to a work camp in Russia.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jacob Apelberg.
This excerpt is in English.
Jacob Apelberg was born in Wasewo, Poland in 1932.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.