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.

Remembering Lodz, City of Chimneys

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Menashe Rotberg—Holocaust survivor from Lodz, now living in Israel—remembers what Lodz was like while he was growing up.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Menashe (Moniek Moritz) Rotberg.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.