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.
Nazi Book-Burnings in Kalisz River
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Magdalena Kozłowska, Polish historian and Yiddish teacher, tells the sad story of the Nazis throwing Polish and Jewish books into the Prosna river.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Magdalena Kozłowska.
This excerpt is in English.
Magdalena Kozłowska was born in Kalisz, Poland in 1987.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
