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.

My Father's Escape from Poland to the Soviet Union After the Nazi Invasion

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Annette Libeskind Berkovits, Jewish author and former Senior Vice President of the Wildlife Conservation Society, explains how her father escaped Poland after the Nazi invasion during WWII.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Annette Berkovits.

This excerpt is in English.