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.

Description of Post-WWII Lodz

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Annette Libeskind Berkovits, Jewish author and former Senior Vice President of the Wildlife Conservation Society, describes her childhood neighborhood in post-WWII Lodz, Poland.

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

This excerpt is in English.

Other video highlights from this oral history

"Needed Someone Who Knew Yiddish": My Father's Job in a Jewish Print Shop After Immigrating to the United States

Discovering My Father's Autobiographical Audio Tapes

How to Transmit a Sense of Jewish Identity?

"The Boss Was Completely Incredulous": My Mother Organized a Strike at the Fur Factory

How My Parents Ended Up in Soviet Gulags and Then in Kyrgyzstan

My Father's Involvement with the Jewish Labor Bund and Imprisonment in Poland

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

Life in Kyrgyzstan and Journey Back to Post-WWII Poland

Anti-Semitism in Post-WWII Poland

Experiences of Jewish Life in Post-WWII Poland, Israel, and the United States

Saving Wildlife

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