Baia Mare(Baia Mare / Siget in the project's index)2013-05-206 min · 3 stretchesYiddish 68% Hungarian 26% English 6%
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Summary
Fragment of a long session in Baia Mare / Siget (2013-05-20): an elderly woman, apparently showing photographs, names her parents and siblings and speaks of her wedding at nineteen. Hungarian-speaking bystanders comment. Toward the end she mentions her husband's first wife and children, who were deported to Auschwitz.
Stretches
00:00–01:59
The woman looks at enlarged family photographs. She names her parents, Ezra Malik(?) and Beyle (Beyli), and their seven children. The siblings include Dine, Nakhman, Yosi, Moyshe, Dovid, Golde and Rivke. Kerler asks about the names and the woman answers.
The woman and Kerler look at a wedding photograph, and she says she was a beautiful girl. She says she made large pictures from small ones. She states she was nineteen when she married, and Kerler checks the age. A Hungarian remark about being a pretty girl comes from another voice.
The Hungarian speaker and S2 discuss the husband, who wanted to marry her because he knew her from home. Kerler remarks that he left his family, and the woman says he married a younger woman. She says the earlier wives were taken to Auschwitz with their children. She has photographs of the first husband(?) with his wife and two children.