Prewar Childhood
YIVO Building, Vilna 1930's. Photo courtesy Vad Vashem
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Gabi Weinreich's Oral History
Gabi Weinreich's Oral History
Click on the image of Gabi for an interview by Christa Whitney of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project. Recorded March 27, 2013 in Chelsea, Michigan.
Vilna, 1934?
With Max, in Zachopana, Poland 1936?
Passport photo, 1938?
Gabi (L) and Uriel (R) 1931?
Uriel and Gabi 1931?
Hamming it up with Regina, 1938?
Di geshikhte fun beyzn beyz (The Story of the Big Bad Beyz)
Di geshikhte fun beyzn beyz (The Story of the Big Bad Beyz)
Max Weinreich wrote this book (illustrations by Kayim Munits) for Gabi's seventh birthday, February 12, 1935. In 2000, Gabi self-published this edition with parallel English translation, which he dedicated to his grandchildren, their children, and children everywhere.
Click here to hear Gabi read this book in Yiddish, and here to hear Gerane read it in English.
Kinder-Loschn Publication (פֿאַרלאַג קינדער־לשון) plans to reissue this book in 2024.
Vilna, June 1996
Vilna, June 1996
Gabi, Gerane, Rebecca and Tara traveled to Vilna in 1996.
L-to-Right: Zhenya (a childhood friend of Gabi's), Necha (daughter of a trademan who worked for Gabi's uncle Yasha), Gabi and Gerane in Niemież (Nemėžis), 5 miles southeast of Vilna. Later in life, Gabi's Boba and Zeyde spent their summers there.
Necha, Gabi, Gerane and Tara in Niemież.
Sofia, Gerane and Gabi
Gabi visiting his Zeyde, Tsemach Shabad.
Gabi at the site of the Ponar Massacre, where his Boba Stefaynye-Shifra Shabad perished on September 23, 1943, during the liquidation of the Vilna ghetto.
Gabi with his aunt Sofia (Sonja), Yasha Shabad's widow.
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