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.
Life in the Soviet Labor Camp
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Jacob Apelberg, Holocaust survivor and translator of Yiddish poetry, describes his time as a child in a Soviet work camp. He discusses his mothers death in the camp, and being adopted by a younger woman.
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.