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.
How Singing for Josef Kramer in Bergen-Belsen Saved My Life
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Moshe Kraus, Holocaust survivor and first chief cantor of the Israel Defense Forces, describes how his family nearly escaped the Holocaust, and how his singing saved him in Bergen-Belsen.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Moshe Kraus.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.