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.
My Nazi Austrian Teacher Shook My Hand Before Returning to Austria
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Fred David--who grew up in Germany but moved to Kansas City during WWII, joined the US Air Force, and eventually became a veterinarian--remembers schoolmates picking on him for being Jewish and his Austrian teacher (who was a Nazi) shaking his hand before moving back to Austria after Hitler was elected.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Fred David.
This excerpt is in English.
