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.

"They would maim the child sufficiently": 'Fixers' Helping Children to Avoid Tsarist Army Conscription

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Sue Ehrlich—New York native, Yiddish activist, and artist—explains the 'Fixers,' 'Grabbers,' and the extreme lengths to which people went to ensure their children would not be conscripted into the Russian Tsarist army.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sue Ehrlich.

This excerpt is in English.

Sue Ehrlich was born in New York, New York in 1928.

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