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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.

William (Volfke Zev Gdud) Good's Oral History

William (Volfke Zev Gdud) Good, Holocaust survivor and speaker of ten languages, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on October 17th, 2016, in West Covina, California.

This interview was conducted in Yiddish.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Languages in My Village and Shtetl Childhood

2 min 19 sec

Memories of Zionism in the Intellectual Landscape of Interwar Vilna

3 min 35 sec

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

1 min 52 sec

I Was Delivered By the Same Doctor as Zalman Shazar

3 min 12 sec

Daily Life for a Jewish Kid in Nementchin, Lithuania Before World War Two

3 min 19 sec

"Completely By Chance": Surviving the Ponar Massacre

8 min 2 sec

Not Gambling With Another's Life: My Father's Lesson About Money

4 min 53 sec

Why I Didn't Kill A Nazi and My Daughter's Reaction

10 min 37 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

William Good in Niemencine

William Good with His Parents and Uncle Mula

William Good in 1944

William Good with His Father and Stepmother

William Good in Italy

William Good Studying Anatomy

William Good on a Date with Pearl

William Good at His Wedding

William Good on a Horse

The Gdud Family in 1940

Dov Gdud's Gymnasium Diploma

William Good in Durham, Connecticut

Motl and Wowka in Niemencine circa 1932

William Good in Berlin

Mr. and Mrs. WIlliam Good in West Covina

William Good with His Brother Motl

William Good with His Parents and Puppy

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