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AHEYM-2013-025 · Oradea

Oradea (Nagyvarad in the project's index) 2013-05-16 11 min · 5 stretches · 2 questions about words Yiddish 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.

Informal life today Local Jewish historyDeportation · Sziget

01:36–05:44

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.

during the warlife today DeportationGhettoCamps and forced laborMemorials and commemoration · Sziget, Kolozsvár, Klausenburg, Auschwitz

05:44–06:17

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.

07:26–09:37

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.

Questions about words

  • 07:26
    What was the bread made for Sabbath called? — term for Sabbath bread
  • 07:44
    Was it not called berkhes? — confirmation of berkhes as a term