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.

Traveling through a Forest Full of Birds and Wolves from Our Village to Get to School in the Shtetl of Nementchin

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William (Volfke Zev Gdud) Good, Holocaust survivor and speaker of ten languages, recalls the sometimes dangerous route he had to take to get to school in the neighboring town of Nementchin as a Jewish child in the interwar period.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with William (Volfke Zev Gdud) Good.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.