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.

By Helping Others You Help Yourself: The Human Benefits of Teaching and Sharing

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Sami Steigmann, child survivor of the Holocaust and motivational speaker speaks about his life and his time spent as a motivational speaker.

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.