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Camera file, 10:40, from a session recorded in Baia Mare / Siget on 20 May 2013; the index names no interviewee. An elderly man talks with the interviewer. He recalls a blessing from a rebbe and an escape from the Hungarians to the Russians, then Purim at his grandfather's with Purim players and Gypsy musicians. A short break about water and wine follows, then a Romanian officer in Baia Mare who protected Jewish workers, and finally a memorial planned for murdered local Jews. The speaker labels are unreliable, and the main speaker's lines sit mostly under KERLER.
The speaker recalls a blessing from the Kalemayer (?) rebbe and says it helped him. He tells of being rescued from the Hungarians and getting across to the Russians through the forest, a long and difficult journey. He mentions being seven or eight years old and a guide, and a gift his grandmother sent his grandfather for Purim.
The speaker describes Purim in his childhood home as a very happy festival. His grandfather drank a few schnapps and was cheerful, and Purim players came to visit him. The band that played was Gypsy rather than Jewish, led by a man called Chigoy (?), and it knew many Jewish melodies. He adds that the area had many Jews, not all of them poor.
A short break in which the informant offers water and the speakers then talk about wine instead.
The speaker recalls a Romanian officer in Baia Mare named Revitski (?), who was good to the Jews. He refused to send them to Ukraine and looked for work for them locally, saying his Jews were working there. The Jews built something under him, and a plaque names him and his builders. His son later visited the speaker and wrote a book whose title is hard to render and concerns wars won and lost.
The speaker mentions photographs from various periods and the site of the former barracks of the Jews, which has since been demolished. An organization (name unclear) wants to put up an obelisk to the Jews murdered here, and he was sent to it. A young man there asked him to say something in two or three words, and he refused. The place is in Maramureș, in an area with no Jews. They said of him that he has a tongue.