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.
"I Remember Asking, 'How Could I Become a Non-Jew?'": Post-WWII Poland in the Eyes of a Jewish Child
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Samuel Ponczak—Holocaust survivor, polyglot, and translator—remembers feeling insecure about his Jewish identity as a young child in Poland.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Samuel Ponczak.
This excerpt is in English.
Samuel Ponczak was born in Warsaw, Poland.