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.

“The Apple in the Eye of Lodz”: The Altshtot Synagogue of Lodz

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Rabbi Peretz Weizman, Holocaust survivor, describes the Altshtot Shul in Lodz, which was his favorite growing up.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Peretz Weizman.

This excerpt is in Yiddish and English.

Peretz Weizman was born in Lodz, Poland in 1926. Peretz died in 2020.

Other video highlights from this oral history

Memories of the Town of Ger Before World War II

1 min 3 sec

Visits to the Rebbe: Memories of the Overcrowded Synagogue in Ger, Poland

3 min 6 sec

A Shabbos Prayer from My Childhood

2 min 42 sec

“My Brothers Gave Me Their Years”: The Last Survivor of His Pre-War Family

3 min

Surviving and Escaping the Lodz Ghetto

3 min 3 sec

Singing Nigunim from Ger, Poland

2 min 21 sec

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