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.

Description of "Prisoner Town" in Kazakhstan: Housing and Schooling

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Celia Ores, Yiddish speaker born in Poland and survivor of the Gulag, remembers the living conditions of a a "prisoner town" in Kazakhstan along with its education system.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Celia Ores.

This excerpt is in English.

Celia Ores was born in Dubienka, Poland in 1928.