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.

Stories from the Concentrations Camp Between "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and Other Happy Childhood Memories

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Lilly Gaev, psychotherapist and child of Holocaust survivors, describes the stories she heard from her parents from the concentration camps amidst a happy childhood.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Lilly Gaev.

This excerpt is in English.

Lilly Gaev was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1948.

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