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Short 2012 camera-video recording made in Mihalisku (as indexed), with an elderly non-Jewish Romanian woman (index: 'Old Roman Women') who remembers some Yiddish, and a second woman. Kerler questions her in Yiddish about her Yiddish, her family, the Jewish cemetery and food, and about five years of forced labor in Russia (the Urals). Romanian and Russian are mixed in. It ends with thanks and good wishes.
Opening exchange about who still knows Yiddish. The woman says she understands more than she speaks and remembers a little. She recalls that her sister spoke Yiddish well, that this sister died, and that she herself fell ill. Kerler asks whether Yiddish was still spoken here. They mention her father, Filep (?), who spoke it well.
She recalls being taken to Russia before the age of seventeen with her father, mother and sister. She says she spent five years there, then returned, soon married, and lived in other places. Kerler introduces himself and asks her name, and she answers with a first name that sounds like Caroline (?). He asks about the Jewish prayer house. They talk about a large Jewish cemetery, and the Romanian-speaking woman asks about relatives.
Talk about a deceased woman, who spoke Yiddish well, and about the year of her death (stated in Russian as 2010 (?)). The informant says she went to school and played as a child, and Kerler switches to asking what the family ate.
Kerler asks about food at home in Mihalisku. She answers that she cannot remember, then describes her five years in the Urals/Siberia: twelve-hour workdays, little food, and cabbage soup. Kerler asks whether she still remembers some Russian, and she says she has forgotten it. She speaks of her illness and of walking with difficulty.
Questions about relatives and languages. She says she has relatives in Germany. S2 and the team discuss German origin and which languages the women understand. A sung or chanted bit about an aunt is partly garbled.
In Romanian, the women discuss their ethnic origin, German father and Romanian mother, and baptism and marriage in the Romanian church. Kerler repeatedly asks what people were called, probably her nationality or their forms of address.
Kerler says he was born in Moscow and now lives in America, and that the team had come to the area three years before. They compare life here with the US. She says the economy is poor and the young have no work and must go to Italy.
Talk about the telephone number and the date of birth of a relative, Aunt Mica (?) (said to be born in 1932 (?)), and about family graves in the cemetery. The informant describes her husband's death of a heart attack, and says she has no children.
Closing pleasantries. Kerler thanks her for the interesting conversation, and the informant wishes him health. They say goodbye and thank each other.