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 My Father Survived World War II
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Rose Blustein [Ajzenbud], librarian and daughter of Yiddish writer Moshe Ajzenbud, tells the story of her father and other male relatives' survival during World War II in a Soviet forced labor prison camp, from which he later escaped with his uncle.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Rose Blustein [Ajzenbud].
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Rose Blustein [Ajzenbud] was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1951.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
