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.

"We Need to Take Care of That Land, Where Our Families Lie": Remembering the Holocaust in Poland

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Samuel Ponzack—Holocaust survivor, polyglot, and translator—discusses the causes to which he has dedicated his life as a translator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and has words of advice about remembering the Holocaust.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Samuel Ponczak.

This excerpt is in English.

Samuel Ponczak was born in Warsaw, Poland.