00:13–01:46
Hungarian small talk with Yiddish fragments around the arrival of the visitors. The woman says she did not know they were coming and would otherwise have made coffee. Other lines are fragmentary, and one mentions Budapest (?).
Later expeditions, 2012–2018 › 2013 Expedition
AHEYM-2013-013 · Oradea
Oradea (Nagyvarad in the project's index)
2013-05-16
11 min · 3 stretches
Yiddish 9% Hungarian 81% Romanian 9%
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
A camera file from the 2013 Nagyvarad session, with no interviewee named in the index. It is mostly a social scene in a flat: an elderly woman, apparently marking her birthday, is visited by a few people who bring a cake. Most of the speech is Hungarian, with some Romanian and fragments of Yiddish. Kerler says only a few words.
Stretches
01:46–05:58
The birthday cake is served. A woman tells the older woman to blow out the candle and not to cry, and the older woman asks someone to cut the cake. The group talks about eating the cake together, and she says she cannot hold a spoon properly. She speaks of her loneliness and of Anka, and the others thank and wish her good health. Romanian and Hungarian dominate, with Yiddish interjections.
05:58–10:40
Talk about the older woman's situation. She is hard of hearing, there is mention of a hearing device, and she says life is a torment. The others describe finding a carer for her and note that she has been indoors since last year. They urge her to eat and to walk outside. She replies that she only wants to go to the cemetery, and someone asks how many people over ninety are still there. There is also a brief mention of a visitor who came from America (?). Kerler says a few words, including that he is not allowed another piece. Hungarian is mixed with Yiddish.