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Audio recording made on 2015-05-19 in the Baia Mare region with Eisikovits (the transcript calls him Chaim Eisikovits), an elderly man from Gherla (?). It begins mid-conversation with his visits to Lemberg and Kolomea, his grandmother's gifts to the Kolomea rebbe, and his seven years in captivity. He then talks about school, Talmud study, his grandfather's house, Hanukkah and Sukkot, and his grandchildren in Israel. The last part is chat in the street and at the door, with a few lines of recited text and a Purim-play verse.
Eisikovits mentions places he has visited: Lemberg, Kolomea (Kolomyia). He says his grandmother used to send Purim gifts (shalakh-manos) to the Kolomea rebbe, who gave him blessings. He says he was in a camp for seven years, three of them under the Hungarians and four under the Russians, where he learned Russian, and he speaks some Russian with Kerler.
Kerler and a woman congratulate Eisikovits on his recent birthday and wish him health to 120. The conversation turns to the woman's name, which is Ildi. The interviewee talks about finding a companion and about life's problems.
Eisikovits names his gymnasium years near Gherla as the happiest time, with many Jewish friends. He learned in Romanian at school and in Yiddish at cheder, and finished the first four classes before gymnasium. He studied Gemara, tractate Beitzah and others, at the same time, and Kerler asks him to repeat the passage he recites. He says some things must never be forgotten.
Eisikovits says Hungarian was spoken at home, though his parents knew Yiddish, and his grandfather spoke Yiddish. He names his maternal grandfather, David Weiss (?), and the grandmother, Golda. He then tells how his grandfather wanted to buy a house with a garden in Gherla (?) from an Armenian owner. After long haggling the Armenian sold it to a Jewish woman named Schwartz from Beclean (?), and the grandfather ended up marrying her (?). He gave a room to the Zionists, and the speaker was six or seven years old at the time.
Kerler asks about relatives in Marmures. Eisikovits says the family is not from there. They mention Shalik, who invited them to come in the evening, and Eisikovits says it is hard for him to speak and that no one is left to go to the synagogue.
Answering Kerler's questions about childhood, Eisikovits recalls Hanukkah in the Jewish community hall, where he sang as a boy among the children, and he gives a song. He describes his grandfather's big sukkah, where they ate and invited guests and neighbors, and says those were childhood years before the hardships. He was 21 when taken to the camp.
Speakers talk in the sun about vitamin D and the microphone. A few lines of recited text are heard, perhaps a prayer. Kerler says they came from Satmar and are pleased to have found him. They walk to his street, which Eisikovits calls splendid, and he complains that the street works were done badly.
Kerler asks what the tree is called, and the answer is chestnut (kastan) (?). Eisikovits says he sent money to his daughter in America. He has grandchildren in Israel, one a soldier and one a student in Jerusalem, and mentions a statuette of klezmers, a visit from friends, and a Budapest demonstration for Israel. Kerler recalls that a professor from Nyíregyháza bought sixty copies of an album he made.
Recited text, apparently psalms or a blessing, is heard; it is only partly clear. Eisikovits speaks of Yom Kippur Kol Nidre and of a man who was a shochet. They talk about Shariqorod (?) and Transnistria, and he says he led a victims' association in Maramureș. Kerler then asks for a piece of a Purim play, and Eisikovits gives a line about falling and a long beard.
Kerler says it is 19 May 2015 and they are in Baia Mare. He asks to go in and sit for half an hour, but Eisikovits has other plans and they arrange to come back later. Kerler mentions a promised booklet. People talk about the microphone and the setup, partly in Hungarian, and about food that will be offered.