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.
"Completely By Chance": Surviving the Ponar Massacre
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William (Volfke Zev Gdud) Good, speaker of ten languages, describes being captured and taken to Ponar, where he miraculously escaped a massacre of Lithuanian Jews.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with William (Volfke Zev Gdud) Good.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.