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A 10-minute camera file from Baia Mare, 19 May 2013, in which Kerler is introduced to an elderly man (given in the transcript as Mihai / Khayim, son of Isak or David(?)) who is originally from Gherla. The opening is introductory talk. The man then tells about his parents' deaths in Auschwitz, his daughters, the Jewish community of Gherla, his schooling, and his forced labour in the Soviet Union after the war.
Introductions. S2 explains that Kerler is a professor of Yiddish from America. Kerler gives his name and interests, and asks the man's name, which he gives as Mihai / Khayim. They discuss how Kerler got the man's address, from the president Nachman Shalik.
The man says he comes from Gherla, a place with a Hungarian name near Cluj. Kerler notes the date, 19 May 2013. The man says his parents stayed behind in Auschwitz, his mother aged about forty-five and his father fifty, and his father was shot in the last days. He introduces his two daughters, both professors: the younger in Israel (English), the elder in New York.
The man describes prewar Gherla: about sixteen to eighteen thousand inhabitants, over a thousand of them Jews, with a rabbi and a dayan. His father had him study Yiddish and religious subjects with the dayan during his gymnasium years, daily except Friday and Saturday. He recalls some of what he learned, including Hallel (?).
The man gives his birth date as 11 January 1920. After the gymnasium he went to Targu Mures and worked for a firm with an excellent bookkeeper. In 1941 he was taken to a labour camp, then to Ukraine, which he calls worse than hell. About eighty thousand Jews were there and few returned. He was held by the Russians for four years in a labour camp and came home in August 1948, aged 21 when taken. He then recalls a liturgical piece he once learned (Yotser (?)), and Kerler says it is sung on the High Holidays.