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.
Life in the Bad Reichenhall Displaced Persons' Camp
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Rose Blustein [Ajzenbud], librarian and daughter of Yiddish writer Moshe Ajzenbud, describes how her parents lived while they were in a DP camp after World War II, where they were for four years before they could get a visa to go to Australia. They lived together with her uncle and her grandfather and received assistance from the Joint Distribution Committee and an uncle in Munich. She describes it as similar to a current refugee's life.
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.
