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.
"Holocaust was Not Taught...Baloney!": History at the Winnepeg Peretz Day School
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Sheva Zucher, Yiddishist and Yiddish teacher, reflects on the history taught at the Winnepeg Peretz Yiddish Day School she attended as a child. She reacts to the assertion that some scholars have that the Holocaust was not taught until decades after the war ended.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sheva Zucker.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Sheva Zucker was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1951.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
