Saldinger provides personal information. She moved to Suceava in 1946.
Kerler greets Saldinger and asks for her name, her Yiddish name and her birthplace, Chernivtsi. She gives her birth year as 1933 and says she has lived in Suceava since 1946. Kerler then asks her to tell about her childhood.
Saldinger discusses her childhood memories. She was confined to the Murafa ghetto during World War II. Saldinger briefly touches upon her arrival in the ghetto. She then speaks about her family. Saldinger grew up with another sibling and her father was a merchant.
Saldinger says she had a good childhood in Chernivtsi until the deportation to Transnistria, where she was in Murafa, with hunger and disease and everything lost on the way. She had one sibling. Her father, Yosl Krenter, was a flour merchant, her mother was Regina (Rivke), and her maternal grandfather administered an estate. Kerler explains the purpose of the archive interviews.
Adds her mother's name and the grandfather's work, and Kerler's explanation of the archive's purpose.
Items of the dialect questionnaire asked here; each link plays the moment.