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You Try To Understand and Explain: The Legacy of the Holocaust in the Jewish...
EX323_1988 Victoria - exhibit designer at the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum and student of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute - discusses how the Lithuanian Jewish community is made up of Holocaust...
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My Children Are Of A Different Generation of Lithuanian Jews
EX323_1983 Victoria - exhibit designer at the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum and student of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute - compares her children's upbringing with her own. While Victoria grew up...
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Shimon Alperovitch, z”l, 1928-2014
THE WEXLER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT Visit the Wordress version of Greetings From the Gegnt. Sign up to receive our weekly featured clip via email.Follow the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History...
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Traveling in Eastern Europe
EX304_1852 Sara Israel, former Yiddish Book Center fellow, shares her experiences of traveling through Eastern Europe, visiting Jewish historical sights.
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"Like Walking On Blood:" A Roots Trip to Lithuania
EX290_2425 Ghita Wolpowitz, a Litvak (Lithuanian Jew) who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), talks about visiting Lithuania in 2008 to visit her mother's hometown and other sites from her family's...
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Exploring Jewish Sites in Europe
EX330_2433 Wyman Brent, initiator of the Vilnius Jewish Public Library, tells how he initially became interested in Jewish culture when he visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Prague's Jewish...
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We Would Embrace Even A Stranger: Vilna in the First Days After World War II
EX325_2292 Fania Brantsovsky - former Jewish partisan during World War Two and librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute - recalls images from the aftermath World War II: the reunion of two cousins...
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Why I Stayed in Vilna After the War
EX325_2293 Fania Brantsovsky - former Jewish partisan during World War Two and librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute - explains that she stayed in Vilna after World War II because she expected...
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Vilna, Post-World War II: How We Found Out Who Had Survived
EX325_2295 Fania Brantsovsky - former Jewish partisan during World War Two and librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute - recalls how Vilna's Jewish community came together following World War II...
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The Heart of Secular Yiddish Culture: My Mother's Education in Pre-War Vilna
EX313_3131 Rivka Augenfeld, native Yiddish speaker and active member of the Montreal Jewish community, describes the Vilna of her mother's youth.
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"She Was Washing Her Hair, and Then The Bombs Started Falling": The Beginning...
EX313_3133 Rivka Augenfeld, native Yiddish speaker and active member of the Montreal Jewish community, describes the German invasion of Vilna- the day her mother was supposed to graduate high school.
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Yiddish Culture in Soviet Vilna
EX328_2363 Shimon Alperovitch, z"l, co-president of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, describes how, unlike other parts of the USSR, Vilna had several recognized Yiddish cultural organizations.
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Today's Litvak Jewish Community in Lithuania
EX328_2364 Shimon Alperovitch, z"l, co-president of the Jewish Community in Lithuanian, describes the work of the Jewish Community, from preserving Jewish culture to fighting anti-Semitism.
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Late President of Lithuanian Jewish Community on Modern Jewish-Lithuanian...
EX328_2365 Shimon Alperovitch, z"l, co-president of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, reflects on the complicated and varied dynamics between Jews and Lithuanians, including his work to counter...
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Not English, Yiddish!: Yiddish Awareness in Poland and Abroad
EX410_2636 Małgorzata Maciejewska, graduate student in Jewish Studies at University of Wrocław, tells us about the time a soldier in Vilnius mistook 'Yiddish' for a mispronunciation of another...
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Vilna, Post WWII: How We Found Out Who Had Survived
EX325_2295 Fania Brantsovsky - former Jewish partisan during World War Two and librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute - recalls how Vilna's Jewish community came together following World War II...
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Why I Stayed in Vilna After the War
EX325_2293 Fania Brantsovsky - former Jewish partisan during World War Two and librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute - explains that she stayed in Vilna after the war because she expected people...
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We Would Embrace Even A Stranger: Vilna in the First Days After WWII
EX325_2292 Fania Brantsovsky - former Jewish partisan during World War Two and librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute - recalls images from the aftermath of World War II: the reunion of two...
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How I Came to Join the United Partisan Organization (FPO) in the Vilna
EX325_2291 Fania Brantsovsky - former Jewish partisan during World War Two and librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute - remembers how she became involved with the Fareynikte Partizaner...
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Helping My Least Favorite Teacher in the Vilna Ghetto
EX325_2289 Fania Brantsovsky - former Jewish partisan during World War Two and librarian of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute - remembers how she and her friends would bring food to their teachers during...
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