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.

The Buchenwald Boys: An Extended Family of Holocaust Survivors

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Jack (Yankev-Isroel) Unikowski, Holocaust survivor born in Kalicz, Poland, talks about the Buchenwald Boys, a group of Holocaust survivors who had all been children during their imprisonment at Buchenwald.

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.