00:00–01:32
Opening exchanges at the start of the visit, with Kerler and others greeting the informant and talking about earlier recordings made with him. The talk is fragmentary, with remarks about money and the minyan.
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AHEYM-2012-124 · Wieder, Ernst
Mukacheve (Munkach in the project's index)
2012-05-28
12 min · 5 stretches · 1 questions about words
Yiddish 89% Hungarian 10%
Not online: the recording is held by the project and is not on Media Collections Online, YouTube or archive.org. Everything below is a paraphrase of a machine transcript, the weaker of this site's two transcript layers — see how it was made.
Summary
Short camera recording made in Munkach on 28 May 2012 of the elderly Wieder, who says he is over ninety. It is a follow-up visit rather than a full interview: after opening exchanges and recollections of earlier visits, he talks about the dwindling Jewish community and minyan in Munkach, the deportations of 1944, photographs and objects he collected, and a family visit. Kerler asks about a Hungarian song on the coming of the Messiah, and the recording ends with farewells.
Stretches
01:32–03:47
Wieder recalls a visit to Kerler's home when Kerler was eight years old, and a photograph with Kerler's mother. Names of Jewish people and the head of the community are mentioned. He explains that the men in hasidic dress are two Jews from Kiev who live in Munkach so that there can be a minyan on holidays. Today there are no Jews left in Munkach and he finds it hard to come, being over ninety. Kerler wishes him health to 120.
03:47–07:39
Wieder speaks of Hungarian Jewish actors, then of the wedding of the rabbi's daughter, which he attended, and of his photographs of the wedding and funeral. He mentions the deportations from Munkach and other places in 1944 and a booklet about them. He also tells how he bought up a Munkach newspaper, candlesticks and a candle from a non-Jewish woman he had served and her daughters, one in America. He gave one pair of candlesticks to the Rabbi Rabinovitsh (?) as a gift and has a letter from Steven Spielberg thanking him for an interview.
07:39–10:01
Wieder replies to Kerler's wishes for health, saying he wants to live to 119. He describes his ninetieth birthday in February, when his daughter, grandchildren and a great-grandchild came from Hungary and Canada, and they dined in a restaurant. He gives his birthday as 1 February.
10:01–11:59
Farewells, with names mentioned that are unclear. Kerler asks whether Wieder remembers a Hungarian song about what will happen when the Messiah comes, and Wieder says he cannot sing it. Kerler promises to remember him, and the closing lines among Kerler and S2 are in part repeated phrases.
Questions about words
- 10:39Do you remember a song in Hungarian about when the Messiah comes? — a Hungarian-language song about the coming of the Messiah