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Maria Chirilau

Dorohoi 1 June 2007 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Moisei Lemster 37 min · 1 part on 1 tape proposed
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  1. MDV 253 0:00–36:35 · 37 min · archive.org · a part of the tape
Passages

0:00

The team chats with Chirilau informally and concludes the interview with her. She also addresses her life today and geography.

Informal life today Life today MDV 253 · MCO
From the machine transcript

Chirilau talks about pensions and the hard lives of the poor today. She answers Kerler and Lemster's questions on how Yiddish speakers named Romanian towns and places, such as Rădăuți, Dorohoi, Siret, Hârlău, Botoșani, Iași and Seghet. She also mentions Hungarians and Poles in some of them. The team chats about sending photographs, a daughter who also speaks with the team, and the last Jew in Siret. The interview ends with farewells.

Adds the Yiddish versus Romanian place-name questions and the last Jew in Siret.

7:13

The camera collects town footage, leaving Mihăileni. The team then stops at the Mihăileni cemetery and the camera collects footage.

Footage MDV 253 · MCO
From the machine transcript

Town footage leaving Mihăileni, then the team at a Jewish cemetery. Kerler and Lemster read gravestone inscriptions and Hebrew dates in Yiddish and Russian, including one mentioning deportation to Transnistria and one for a woman who gave money. They talk about the cemetery's condition and who might know its history.

Adds the reading of the inscriptions, the Transnistria mention and the cemetery's condition.

20:34

The camera collects town footage, driving from Mihăileni to Dorohoi.

Footage MDV 253 · MCO
From the machine transcript

Camera footage driving from Mihăileni to Dorohoi, with a few remarks in the car that are not clear.

33:35

The team arrives in Dorohoi and the camera collects synagogue footage.

Footage MDV 253 · MCO
From the machine transcript

Arrival in Dorohoi with footage of the synagogue and a building under construction. Talk in the car is partly in Russian, and a speaker wants to see the façade.