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.
Memories of a Jewish Soldier when the Finnish Army was Allied with Germans in World War 2
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Boris Rubanovitsch, who made his career in the textile business, talks about what he remembers from his time as a Jew in the Finnish Army when his country was allied with the Germans.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Boris Rubanovitsch.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Boris Rubanovitsch was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1926.
