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0:00 - Introduction
0:50 - Jacob Describes Life in His Childhood Village in Poland
6:05 - Jacob Describes His Father's Death and Its Effect on Him
9:05 - Jacob Recalls His Childhood Poverty and the Luxuries of Passover
15:05 - Jacob Remembers Speaking Yiddish in His Childhood Home
18:53 - Jacob Recalls His Religious Education and the Prayer Books in His Home
20:52 - Hearing Music at Weddings and Singing in the Synagogue
22:07 - The Social Atmosphere of Jacob's Childhood Village
25:05 - Jacob's Memories of the German Occupation of His Village
31:31 - Jacob Recalls Being Forced to Leave His Village with His Mother
36:16 - Jacob Remembers Being Transported to a Labor Camp in Russia
40:10 - Jacob Recounts His Mother's Death and His Adoption by a Neighbor
42:51 - Jacob's Life in Kazakhstan
48:13 - Jacob Describes Connecting with Other People from His Village in Poland
50:18 - Receiving News about the War While in the Soviet Union
54:50 - Returning to Poland in 1946 and Joining Youth Organizations
59:11 - Jacob's Experience in a Refugee Camp in Germany
64:05 - Jacob Recounts His Journey to Israel
68:00 - Jacob Discusses His Education in Israel
73:25 - Jacob on the Attitudes Towards Yiddish in Israel
76:55 - Jacob's Immigration to the United States
80:26 - Jacob Reflects on How Living in Different Places Shaped His Jewish Identity
85:49 - Returning to Yiddish After Translating Chaim Grade
89:24 - Jacob Sings the Yiddish Songs He Remembers from Childhood
91:30 - Jacob's Hopes for His Children's Jewish Involvement
93:14 - Jacob Reads a Poem He Translated from Yiddish to English
Keywords: 1940s; adolescence; anti-Semitism; antisemitism; childhood; communism; doikayt (Bundist concept of hereness); doikeyt; education; Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa'ir; Hashomer Hatsair; Hashomer Hatzair; Hebrew language; Lodz; Lodzh; Poland; resistance organizations; teenage years; The Young Guard; Yiddish language; youth organizations; Łódź, Poland