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.
Researching Family Pasts
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Uwe and Gabi von Seltmann, Polish-German couple who have conducted research together about their families' histories in the Holocaust, discuss the research that they conducted, together and separately, on their family pasts. Gabi describes the inspiration that she drew from Uwe's courage in researching his family, and Uwe discusses the difficulties of researching the pasts of Holocaust victims.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gabriela von Seltmann and Uwe von Seltmann.
This excerpt is in English.
Gabriela von Seltmann was born in Musen, Germany in 1964.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
