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.
Defiant Singing Against the Soviets During WWII
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Sidney Zoltak, who survived the Holocaust as a child, talks about what changed when the Soviets invaded his town of Siemiattcze, Poland in 1939. He describes the small rebellions that he and his friends did, including singing "Hatikvah" in the Russian school.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sidney Zoltak.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
