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Camera file from the 2013 expedition (Baia Mare / Siget, 20 May 2013), no interviewee named in the index. An elderly woman living in Siget speaks with Kerler about her siblings, why she stayed in her hometown instead of emigrating, the few Jews left in Siget, Baia Mare and Satu Mare, and the decline of Yiddish. A second voice and some Hungarian passages are also present.
The woman says her mother was also born in this house. She recounts her seven siblings, of whom she alone returned after the war, and explains that she wanted to come home because she has acquaintances here and none abroad. Her children are in America and Israel. Kerler remarks that the remaining Jews have since left.
Kerler and the woman discuss the Kleinbart family in Siget; Kerler knew Shloyme Kleinbart, who moved to Enkish (?). They talk about the surname Klein and the few Jews still in Baia Mare, Satu Mare and Zakmer (?), and Kerler is waiting for a letter about Satu Mare.
She talks about Yiddish: many families did not speak it at home, but in hers it was spoken alongside Hungarian and Romanian because her father was a yeshiva student. She recalls the Passover seder when the children sat at the table with prayer books. She says she did not want to leave and that her relatives in Israel rarely write.
She describes the large old synagogue in Siget with the women upstairs and the men below, and how the congregation has dwindled. S2 praises the beauty of the interior. Part of the stretch is in Hungarian, about the synagogue being full on holidays and people leaving; Yiddish lines are noisy. Kerler asks whether anything else used to happen at the synagogue, and she replies that more Jews lived here then. She says she stayed because she has neighbours who have known her since childhood.
She says she no longer goes to the synagogue because the man who leads the prayers is not a fully observant Jew. In Hungarian passages she says she finds it hard to speak Yiddish for lack of partners; she compliments Kerler's Yiddish, and he says he talks to himself to keep it up. She explains why she did not move to Israel despite invitations. She visited Israel and America for three months each, and relatives sometimes visit her and the cemetery.