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.

Harvey Horn's Oral History

Harvey Horn, former prisoner of war during World War Two, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on July 15, 2011 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

This interview was conducted in English.

Harvey Horn was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1923.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Bragin: "I got a flavor for the world my father lived in"

2 min 28 sec

My Experience Being a Jewish POW in World War II

11 min 2 sec

Meeting a German Major

2 min 16 sec

Seeing the Statue of Liberty After the War

2 min 6 sec

Borough Park in the 1930s

1 min 28 sec

Baseball on the High Holy Days

50 sec

"My father was a socialist, my uncle was like a patriarch of old"

1 min 30 sec

His Grandma's Devotion

1 min 55 sec

Connections Between People

1 min 30 sec

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