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Camera file, the fifth in a run of consecutive files from a session recorded in Baia Mare / Siget on 2013-05-20, with an elderly man whose name the index does not give. The transcript is mostly the informant's own account, though most lines carry the interviewer's label. He first describes a plain obelisk-style Holocaust memorial he proposed for the Jews murdered in Auschwitz. He then recalls returning home in 1948 to Gherla and the lost Jewish community of Dej, a doctor friend who emigrated to Israel, and his own cultural work in Dej.
The informant describes a memorial to local Jews murdered in Auschwitz. He wanted a simple obelisk with no sculptures, since Jews do not make them. It would stand on a plain base of about one and a half metres, with two large, plain stones from a quarry. The stones are meant as a lasting symbol of the victims' memory. Funds are still short: there is enough for perhaps one stone, and money for the second is still being sought. He then explains how the monument is to be made.
He concludes that each side of the monument could carry an inscription in a different language. He then says he returned home in 1948, after liberation, to Gherla (Gerla), where almost no Jews were left. He mentions having been in Dej, where there had once been a community and many Jews and now there is nothing. Tîrgu Mureș (?) is also mentioned.
He talks about a doctor friend whose parents came from Gherla and were good acquaintances of his own parents. The doctor now lives in a town whose name is garbled in the transcript, perhaps Rîmnicu Vîlcea (?). He is named as Telecki (?) and as Hershkovitz (?), and his family is said to come from a place unclear in the transcript. The doctor has two sons, an architect and an economist. He speaks Hungarian and Romanian with him and knows little Yiddish. He emigrated to Israel with his wife and children, where he had been chief doctor.
He talks about his work in Dej, first in a modest position and later as the person responsible for culture. He says he ran a cultural circle there. There is a discussion of what the role means, followed by a remark about the town's library, which was seen on Romanian television. The conversation turns to whether there are Yiddish and Hebrew books there, and he mentions books.