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.

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

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Rabbi Peretz Weizman reflects on being the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust.

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

This excerpt is in 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

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

4 min 57 sec

A Shabbos Prayer from My Childhood

2 min 42 sec

Surviving and Escaping the Lodz Ghetto

3 min 3 sec

Singing Nigunim from Ger, Poland

2 min 21 sec

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