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.

Chana Szlang Gonshor's Oral History

Chana Szlang Gonshor, native Yiddish speaker born in 1919 in Warsaw, was interviewed by Jordan Kutzik and her daughter-in-law Anna Gonshor on December 14, 2011 at the Montreal Jewish Public Library in Montreal, Canada.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Chana Szlang Gonshor was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. Chana Szlang died in 2021.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Passing Yiddish Down In The Family

1 min 27 sec

"The Gypsy-Life is Cheerful": Yiddish song from the Medem Sanatorium

2 min 3 sec

Chana Szlang Gonshor Sings "Working Lads" by Yosl Mlotek

1 min 56 sec

Chana Szlang Gonshor's Arrival in Halifax

2 min 10 sec

"Children's Republic": The Medem Sanatorium

1 min 30 sec

A Typical Day At The Medem Sanatorium

2 min 33 sec

1932: Communists Attack the Bundist Medem Sanatorium

3 min 17 sec

Remembering a Poor Jewish Home in Pre-War Warsaw

2 min 21 sec

Chana Szlang Gonshor Sings "The Worker's Marseillaise" in Yiddish

1 min 23 sec

A First-hand Account Of The Medem Sanatorium

5 min 29 sec

A Refugee's First Impression Of The Montreal Peretz Shule

1 min 38 sec

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