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.
Yiddish Faux Pas with a Holocaust Survivor at Camp Kinderwelt
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Bunny Hoffinger, former fashion designer who grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, recalls a mistake she made when speaking to a young Holocaust survivor in Yiddish at Camp Kinderwelt (aka Unser Camp).
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Bunny Hoffinger.
This excerpt is in English.
Bunny Hoffinger was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930. Bunny died in 2018.
