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.
Antisemitism in the Forest: My Experience as a Jewish Partisan Outside of Vilna
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Baruch Shoob, native Yiddish speaker from Vilna, explains his experience in a Soviet partisan group in the forests outside of Vilna, including the antisemitism from Polish resistance fighters of the Home Army (AK) that complicated things for Jewish partisans fighting against the Nazis.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Baruch Shoob.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
