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AHEYM-2012-210 · "Arie" (in the synagogue)

Oradea (Nagyvarad in the project's index) 2012-06-07 4 min · 2 stretches Yiddish 77% Romanian 20%

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-video file (under four minutes) from the Nagyvarad synagogue, 7 June 2012, indexed under the name Arie. It opens with a brief exchange between Kerler and an elderly man and others about his background, then fragments of talk, and ends with Romanian speech about arrangements in the synagogue. The transcript is poor, so the content is thin.

Stretches

00:00–01:54

The man is asked where he is from and answers in broken fashion. He mentions being in a camp from 1940 and says his father died in Jerusalem more than five years ago. Others remark on the older Jews present and on which languages he speaks, and Kerler says he speaks only Yiddish and knows Hebrew too. The details are partly unclear.

01:54–03:46

Fragmentary talk, with a repeated phrase that is a recogniser loop. Then Romanian speech about arrangements in the synagogue, including starting earlier and a difficult situation, followed by unclear Yiddish. The content cannot be made out.