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AHEYM-2015-007 · Réti, Béla

Debrecen (Debretsin in the project's index) 2015-05-17 7 min · 4 stretches Yiddish 98%

Not online: the recording is held by the project and is not on Media Collections Online, YouTube or archive.org. Everything below is a paraphrase of a machine transcript, the weaker of this site's two transcript layers — see how it was made.

Summary

Final ten-minute-or-less file of a session in Debrecen (index: Réti, 2015-05-17), audio only. The conversation is a farewell: greetings to Jews in America, a parcel sent earlier, the renovated Orthodox synagogue and its daily prayers, Chabad's presence, visiting Jews and the Tash (?) Hasidim, Purim and Passover gatherings, and closing good wishes.

Stretches

00:00–01:34

Farewell exchange: greetings are sent to Jews in America and to a woman named Perl (?). The interviewee says a parcel with kosher salami was sent. Kerler asks whether he received the package sent two or three years before, and the interviewee says yes, from Pest. A Hungarian address (Mester utca) is given, and Kerler promises to try to send another.

Informal life today Emigration and relatives abroad · Pest, Mester utca

01:17–03:41

Kerler asks for a little song, but the talk turns to the renovated synagogue, repair work done in the old Orthodox synagogue and the beit midrash, and daily morning prayer there. A donor named Vruser (?) gave money, a sum of six hundred thousand (?) is mentioned. The interviewee asks whether the Tash (?) Hasidim still come and mentions the rebbe, and says he was in a ghetto and in Auschwitz (?).

life todayduring the war Synagogue and prayerHasidism and rebbesLocal Jewish historySongs and music · Debrecen, Tash (?), Auschwitz (?)

05:07–07:18

Kerler asks who is in the yellow building by the Status Quo synagogue, formerly a yeshiva. The interviewee names a man, Ernfeld (?), who comes from Eretz Israel. Gatherings there for Purim fish and Passover seder are mentioned. After a passing remark about a weekday air (?), Kerler closes with thanks and wishes of health, and the interviewee mentions the Messiah.