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.

The Business District of Kozienice Before and During World War Two

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Ruth Ravina – Holocaust survivor – describes the streets where the businesses were in Kozienice. She describes what some of the businesses were and what happened when the Germans arrived in 1939.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ruth Ravina.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.