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.
Roaches and One Hundred Grams of Bread: Life in the Riga Ghetto
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Yakob Basner, Yiddish teacher and Holocaust survivor, describes his family's struggle to survive within the confines of the Riga Ghetto.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yakob Basner.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Yakob Basner was born in 1927. Yakob died in 2021.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
