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.
Anti-Semitism in Pre-War Poland: My Mother's Story about a Jewish Man at the Train Station
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Betty Sorkowitz, daughter Yiddish activists and founders of the Sholem Aleichem Institute in Detroit, tells her mother's unusual story about Polish teenagers assaulted a Jewish man at a train station.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Betty Sorkowitz.
This excerpt is in English.
Betty Sorkowitz was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1927.