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.
Our Village Synagogue Was Destroyed on Kristallnacht
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Fred David--who grew up in Germany but moved to Kansas City during WWII, joined the US Air Force, and eventually became a veterinarian--describes the synagogue in his small village of Hamm being burned to the ground on Kristallnacht.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Fred David.
This excerpt is in English.
