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.

Riva Berelson's Oral History

Riva Berelson, philanthropist and child of Holocaust survivors, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on April 16th, 2019 in Tiburon, CA.

This interview was conducted in English.

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Artifacts related to this oral history

First Pesach in Cham, 1947

Family on the Steps After the Wedding

My Mother Before the War

A Friend

My Mother on the Beach

School Picture in the Ghetto, 1942

Leo Glazer, Manager of the Factories in the Lodz Ghetto

Aunt and Uncle in Zacopane, Poland

Aunt and Uncle on Their Skiis

Riva Berelson's Photo

Munich 1947

Club Ararat and the Jolly Boys

Henry Baigelman Photographed at One of His First Performances

Henry Baigelman and Cousin 1944 Germany

Aunt Paula in a Hat

Married in Germany After the War

Passover in Munich

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