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.

"I Was Born in Three Countries": Shifting Borders around Czernowitz

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Sami Steigmann, child survivor of the Holocaust and motivational speaker, speaks about his origins and being born in the city of Czernowitz that was claimed at the time and since by at least three different countries.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sami Steigmann.

This excerpt is in English.

Sami Steigmann was born in Czernowitz (Bukovina) in 1939.