Solik (Tsolel) Chaimovich Ziselis

Ziselis gives his name and patronymic and says he is from Khotyn. He recounts the war years: Tulchyn, hangings, forced labor, and escaping from the work column to hide in the barracks with the help of an acquaintance. He describes shootings, the death of acquaintances, and his father the shoykhet who was shot. The transcript is garbled and details are uncertain.

Also gives the Yiddish name Tsolel ben Chaim and mentions the lack of a minyan today.

Ziselis briefly recounts the German entry and shootings in the streets, then answers Kerler's questions about his cheder and teacher. He tells of his father travelling with others to the Chortkov rebbe for blessings, and of his mother's reaction to the blessing. He names his siblings, including a sister Esther Beyle.

Includes the cheder and the teacher, and a visit to the Chortkov rebbe.

Ziselis talks about his family, in particular his sister's schooling at the gymnasium and a conflict over Sabbath work, and his father's attempts to find a match or money. Kerler asks which two rebbes had blessed the family. Ziselis says he worked with his father as a shoykhet before the war, and that his brother studied in a yeshiva and then in Belgium.

Adds his sister's gymnasium schooling and his brother's yeshiva studies; the details of the matchmaking story are unclear.

Ziselis speaks about prewar Khotyn and his work as a shoykhet after the war, travelling to nearby villages and small towns. He worked for several years with a shoykhet named Moyshe. He answers Kerler's questions about whether his father kept a notebook, and talks about a rabbi's school with many children. Kerler thanks him at the end and the talk turns to health.

Adds the question about the notebook and the closing talk about health.

Camera-only passage with sparse talk between Kerler, Ziselis and another speaker, partly in Russian, with little that can be made out. Some words about a hall or a concert may be heard, but the content is not clear.