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.
Passing On The History of the Holocaust, Even Through Those Who didn't Personally Experience It
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Debra Weiss Yashinsky, special educator and daughter of Detroit-born Jewish actors, talks about how her mother, Elizabeth Elkin Weiss, performed portraying a Holocaust survivor. She talks about how much her mother cared that the history of the Holocaust be remembered and studied.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Debra Weiss Yashinsky.
This excerpt is in English.
Debra Weiss Yashinsky was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1954.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
