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.

Finding My Father's Work in the Warsaw Archives

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Lola Paley-Byron, child survivor of the Holocaust and social worker, talks about the trip to Warsaw she took with her son, and recalls finding movie reviews her father had written before the war.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Lola Paley-Byron.

This excerpt is in English.

Lola Paley-Byron was born in Siberia, Russia in 1943.