Slava (Sluve) Mykolaivna Angelova

The scene moves to Angelova's flat, where the interviewers introduce themselves and Angelova speaks about her life today. She talks about her health, operations and a visit to Israel.

Angelova's health and operations; the street footage of Balta is not visible in the transcript.

The formal interview begins. Angelova says she was born in Topole in a region whose name is unclear in the transcript. She grew up there until the war, in about 1920, and her parents worked in a shop. She also mentions that Jews in Krasne Okny were killed.

Mention of the killing of Jews in a nearby town.

Angelova gives her name and her father's name, Kolman. She says her father came from the Rashkov area (Bessarabia) and her mother from Topole. The family had a house, land, cows and pigs, and her mother also kept a small shop and later joined a kolkhoz.

Father's origin and a brother hiding in an attic.

Angelova says that about fifteen Jewish families lived in Topole and describes collectivization. The family's cows and horses were taken, her father resisted and the family worked on the kolkhoz. She grew up with four siblings. They moved to Kotovsk, where her parents worked in shops.

Mention of a brother's departure.

Angelova recounts the start of the war. Her older brother left, while her parents and grandmother stayed. The Germans registered families and assembled Jews at a stadium.

Angelova gives the names of her grandfathers and grandmothers, and says one grandfather was a kulak who kept pigs. Lemster and Kerler also ask about the date of collectivization and about her grandfather's origin in the Rashkov area.

Names of the grandparents and the kulak story.

Angelova speaks about her father, mother and grandmother, who stayed behind and were killed during the war in the Kotovsk district. She mentions her father's earlier time in Bessarabia under the Romanians. Lemster asks where and when the killings took place, and she mentions the stadium and other nearby towns such as Balta. Lemster ends by asking about her siblings.

Includes her father's time in Bessarabia and mentions of Balta.

Angelova names her siblings, including a sister Sonya and a blind brother, and says there were five children. She describes the family's wartime movements, her going to the front, and work there as a bookkeeper. Kerler asks about the Russian term for her military unit.

Adds the siblings' names and the exchange about the military unit's Russian term.

Angelova says there were many Jews in Birzule before the war. Asked about Topole, she describes prayer gatherings held in a private house, and a rabbi who taught children in Yiddish. She also mentions a ritual slaughterer who killed chickens.

Adds the private prayer house, the teaching rabbi, and the shoykhet in Topole.

Angelova answers questions about Jewish holidays in Topole, especially Passover. She describes the communal baking of matzo, how her father led the seder, and an old Jewish guest who came. Lemster and Kerler ask who asked the four questions and whether they sang. She says the family had no Yiddish songs or Jewish school.

Adds matzo baking, the seder led by her father, and the old Jewish guest.

Angelova says she attended a Ukrainian school and that there were no Jewish schools. She mentions that her family farmed. Lemster asks about a sukkah. She explains that she and her parents read and wrote Yiddish, and says she visited Israel. Lemster compliments her Yiddish.

Adds the sukkah question, her Yiddish literacy, and her trip to Israel.

Angelova says she stopped speaking Yiddish after the war. Lemster asks about Jewish weddings, and she describes an open-air huppah and a custom of gifts called makes. Kerler and Lemster then ask for dialect words, such as the word for a holy place, a cemetery, and a Jewish field. She asks about the ages of the others present and mentions her operations.

Adds weddings, dialect-word questions and talk about health and age.

Angelova speaks about her postwar life: she moved to Kotovsk after the war and worked as a bookkeeper. She says she worked in Topole and Chorne before and after. She recalls her housing and moves. Kerler and Lemster ask about her marriages, and she says she had two husbands and two children born in the early 1950s. Lemster asks about a dialect word, dybbuk.

Adds two marriages, postwar housing, and a dialect word elicited at the end.

Angelova recalls childhood pranks and joking with her mother, and taking stolen sweets or goods. Lemster then asks about her medals and orders, and she says she received Ukrainian awards.

Interaction between Jews and non-Jews is not clearly shown; the passage covers childhood jokes and medals.

Angelova closes the interview. She says that she spoke Yiddish with her grandmother until age twenty, and that her mother did not sing. Kerler and Lemster ask for the Yiddish term for vineyard or wine garden. Kerler thanks her.

Adds a dialect-word question about vineyard and the language she spoke with her grandmother.