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.

Jack (Yankev-Isroel) Unikowski's Oral History

Jack (Yankev-Isroel) Unikowski, Holocaust survivor born in Kalicz, Poland, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on February 24, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

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

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Video highlights from this oral history

Life at the Orphanage and Falling in Love With Reading

2 min 52 sec

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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