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.

Bringing a Torah to Auschwitz: Rabbi Edward Zerin Reflects on His Trip to Poland

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Rabbi Ed Zerin speaks about his trip to Poland with a group of people from Europe whose families had been former Nazi agents. He speaks about forgiveness, and about bringing a torah into Auschwitz.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Edward Zerin.

This excerpt is in English.

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