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.

Life at the Orphanage and Falling in Love With Reading

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Jack (Yankev-Isroel) Unikowski, Holocaust survivor born in Kalicz, Poland, describes his life at an orphanage before World War II and how he fell in love with reading there.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Jack (Yankev-Isroel) Unikowski.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Jack (Yankev-Isroel) Unikowski was born in Kalicz, Poland in 1926.

Other video highlights from this oral history

The Buchenwald Boys: An Extended Family of Holocaust Survivors

2 min 25 sec

A Fish in His Pants: An Absurd Episode from the Budy Concentration Camp

2 min 46 sec

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