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 Didn't Know!": Growing Up in An Upper Class Neighborhood During The Depression

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Mildred Berman, New York native and active volunteer worker, recounts her experience growing up in New York City during The Depression - a childhood unique to the time, in which her family was not well-off but she was in an upper class neighborhood separated from witnessing the worst of the period.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Mildred Berman.

This excerpt is in English.

Mildred Berman was born in New York, New York in 1927.

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