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.
We Fell Through The Cracks: Our Family's Move to Kazakhstan During World War Two
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Ina Lancman, daughter of Soviet Yiddish poet Naftali Herts Kon, explains why she was born in Kazakhstan and how her family was able to escape German-invaded Soviet Union.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ina Lancman.
This excerpt is in English.
Ina Lancman was born in Kazakhstan, Soviet Union in 1941.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.