Baia Mare(Baia Mare / Siget in the project's index)2013-05-2011 min · 4 stretchesYiddish 86% Hungarian 14%
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Summary
Camera file, the last ten minutes or so of a long session in Siget (Baia Mare / Siget, 20 May 2013). An elderly woman shows Kerler family photographs: her husband's funeral, a wedding with three brides, relatives in Israel, and her uncle and aunt with their children. Kerler then asks about her own wedding, the Jewish klezmer music, the synagogues and heders of the town, and Sighet and Bila Tserkva (?), and she mentions a man and her husband's siblings.
Stretches
00:00–02:45
The woman shows photographs. One is of the funeral of her husband, who has died, and shows him in a dark coat and her alone. Kerler asks whether it is a funeral photograph and remarks that it is sad. Part of the Yiddish is unclear, and some of her speech is Hungarian.
She shows wedding photographs, including one with three brides, and a wedding of a niece or nephew (?) in Israel. She shows a long photograph of her uncle and aunt with six children. Kerler asks who is pictured, and the name Pesl (?) Fogel and his wife Perl are given. She also shows postwar weddings of cousins, a brother-in-law and a neighbour from the street.
Kerler asks about her own wedding. Many people came, since many Jews still lived in the town. The huppah was set up in the courtyard, and there was a meal and Jewish klezmer musicians. She says there were three synagogues on the Jewish street, more synagogues than anything else, and heders for the children near them.
Kerler asks about Sighet and Bila Tserkva (?), a nearby town, and they talk about passing by it. She names a man (?) Isak, a visit to him, and why he may have left. She mentions her husband's eight siblings and their children. At the end Kerler says something about looking for Siget.