00:00–01:50
Mid-reflection, the woman speaks of how Jews were deprived of their livelihood by special laws against them. She recalls an old rule to protect strangers, orphans and widows, and mentions bread being taken from children.
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AHEYM-2013-082 · Baia Mare
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Summary
Camera file, the 20th of 25 consecutive files of a 2013 session recorded in Baia Mare, with an unnamed elderly woman. It opens mid-reflection on the situation of Jews under discriminatory laws. Kerler then asks about her mother, grandfather and father's side; she describes the Jewish community of a village she calls Iklad/Ikrad (spelling uncertain), including its yeshiva. The file ends on whether she dreams in Yiddish and her chances to use it.
Stretches
01:50–04:10
Kerler asks about her family. Her mother was Rachel, her brother Yona and her sister Chaya. Her mother came from near Gerla rather than from Gerla itself. Her maternal grandfather, David Vays (?), had several children and later moved to Gerla. The paternal grandfather is named Yankl (?), with the patronymic Eyzikovitsh (?).
03:52–08:29
She describes a village she calls Iklad (also written Ikrad), where a grandfather was buried and where many Jews lived. It had a community with a talmud torah, a rabbi, a shochet and other institutions, and later a yeshiva of about forty or fifty pupils (?) that also taught a trade. Some Jews there were very rich, one with a spirits factory and another with fields. Kerler remarks that they turned a village into a small town.
07:36–09:03
She recalls that her father's brother studied at the yeshiva, also learning a trade, and that he died in Auschwitz. She then begins to say that for years she had no opportunity to speak Yiddish.
09:03–10:40
Kerler and S2 ask whether she dreams in Yiddish. She says she dreamed of her mother the previous night and mentions a short interview with a man named Shalik (?), who said she knows Yiddish. Kerler asks whether she ever spent time in a yeshiva or cheder.