Oradea(Nagyvarad in the project's index)2013-05-1611 min · 5 stretches · 2 questions about wordsYiddish 73% Hungarian 26%
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Summary
Camera file from the 2013 expedition in Nagyvarad (index gives no name), the tenth-minute fragment of a longer session. A woman speaks with Kerler and another woman, partly in Hungarian: she talks about a visit to Szeged (?)/Sziget, interviews she gave about her deportation and a book in which Goldi's text appeared, and then answers questions about Sabbath bread, a Jewish bakery in Sziget and her life after the war.
Stretches
00:00–01:36
Chat after a meal or visit: a cake is praised, and the woman mentions a woman from the community office who is not Jewish. They remark how few Jews remain there, and the woman sends greetings to a woman who is much younger than she is and whose writings about the deportations she has read. Kerler asks in which book about Sziget they appeared.
The woman and S2, partly in Hungarian, discuss interviews she gave, including a long one in Kolozsvár for people from the university, and two books on the deportations, in the second of which she appears as someone deported from Sziget. She says her interview was judged the best and others took offence, and was questioned about the ghetto, Auschwitz and her labour there. Kerler clarifies that the book was by Goldi (Goldi Shalamon, possibly), and that he will see her in Sziget and carry greetings.
Mostly in Hungarian: the woman says she hardly knows Goldi, who is much younger, and sends only a greeting. She left Sziget early, kept in touch only with the family there, and her sister-in-law lived and died there.
Kerler asks what Sabbath bread was called. She answers that it was braided challah made by her mother, mentions a word for a Sabbath food (barkhes, as Kerler suggested), and a good Jewish bakery in Sziget whose owner's son now lives in Israel and whose baked goods the family bought.
Asked what work she did after the war, she says she stayed at home and cooked. She came home, married early, and her younger sister and sister-in-law were there. Her mother had not taught her to cook, and promised to do so only once she was a bride.