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.
A Fish in His Pants: An Absurd Episode from the Budy Concentration Camp
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Jack (Yankev-Isroel) Unikowski, Holocaust survivor born in Kalicz, Poland, tells a story from his imprisonment at the concentration camp Budy when a Nazi guard made his friend eat a live fish.
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.
