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.

Growing Up With Knowledge Of The Holocaust

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Vivian Felsen, professional translator and granddaughter of Yiddish writer I. Medres, describes the ways knowledge of the Holocaust colored her childhood, and how she eventually began reading and learning about it in adulthood after wanting nothing to do with it for many years.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Vivian Felsen.

This excerpt is in English.