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.

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Ruth Ravina – Holocaust Survivor – explain how her mother got them sponsored to emigrate to Montreal and how she navigated the Montreal school system without knowing any French.

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

This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.

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The School in the Kozienice Ghetto

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