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.

Boris Rubanovitsch's Oral History

Boris Rubanovitsch, WW2 veteran of the Finnish Army who made his career in the textile business, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 15th, 2018, in Helsinki, Finland.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

Boris Rubanovitsch was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1926.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Memories of a Jewish Soldier when the Finnish Army was Allied with Germans in World War 2

3 min 5 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

Newspaper that interview him about WWII full

Newspaper that interview him about WWII 2

Scouts 1935 with Boris as the Leader

The Story of Finnish Machal by Zacharia Kafka - In Israel and Personal Memories about Sarafand and anti-aircraft artillery

The Story of Finnish Machal by Zacharia Kafka cont with photo of Nurse Mirjam Hurvitsch sitting with Patient

Boris Rubanovitsch yearbook entry 2

The Story of Finnish Machal by Zacharia Kafka Towards the Promised Land and Two Jewish Boys on Their Way to War

Boris Rubanovitsch yearbook entry

The Story of Finnish Machal by Zacharia Kafka

Boris' father with medical students 2

Boris Family in Tallinn 1928 1

Boris' father with medical students

Boris Family in Tallinn 1928 2

Boris' wife in Milan

Wedding Photo

Christa and Boris 1

Book of Jews in Finnish Wars for which Boris was interviewed 1

Christa and Boris 2

Book of Jews in Finnish Wars for which Boris was interviewed 2

Christa and Boris Rubanovitsch

Boris and Wife in Milan

Jewish school class photo

Boris in the Army 1944

Members of the Jewish community bidding farewell to a group of Machalniks at the Helsinki railway station

Newspaper that interview him about WWII

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