Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe

Testimonies Index

The CSYE currently contains 219.1 hours of transcribed recordings from 129 testimony interviews (466 tapes). Of these, 32.8 hours of transcripts (72 tapes) have been reviewed and are available in both the Yiddish alphabet and Latin transliteration. The remaining transcripts are available only in Latin transliteration. Please return here to find the latest additions to the corpus.

  Survivor Interview # City of Birth
Lee Shuldman (thumbnail) Lee Shuldman 42538 Vilnius (װילנע)
Bracha Shumowitz (thumbnail) Bracha Shumowitz 24751 Czerwony Bór (טשערװאָנע)
Samuel Silver (thumbnail) Samuel Silver 32688 Warsaw (װאַרשע)
Feliks Sinalevich (thumbnail) Feliks Sinalevich 25250 Voranava (װאָראָנאָװע)
Abraham Slucki (thumbnail) Abraham Slucki 723 Warsaw (װאַרשע)
Bonyah Snarsḳi (thumbnail) Bonyah Snarsḳi 47935 Šiauliai (שאַװל)
Basya Soyfer (thumbnail) Basya Soyfer 42031 Edineţ (יעדיניץ)
Sara Starkman (thumbnail) Sara Starkman 16804 Ostrów Lubelski (קלײן־אָסטראָװע)
Josef Strutin (thumbnail) Josef Strutin 25338 Tul'chyn (טאָלטשין)
Gersonas Susteris (thumbnail) Gersonas Susteris 11694 Alytus (אַליטע)