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.
Feeling Sympathy for the Soviet Union During World War Two
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Melvin Meister, z"l, retired biomedical engineer, considers the German attack on the Soviet Union during World War II. He explains that though he had become disillusioned with Communism, he still felt for the Soviet losses in the war.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Melvin Meister.
This excerpt is in English.
Melvin Meister was born in Boston, MA in 1928. Melvin died in 2019.
