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Interview in Uzhhorod (index: Ungvar), 4 June 2017, with an elderly woman, apparently surnamed Yurkovetsky (?), who was born in Kryzhopil (?) and has lived in Uzhhorod since 1975. After Kerler's opening and the introduction, she talks about evacuation, university, marriage, her late husband and family in Germany and Israel, her work at a fish base, and her parents. The last minutes turn to Jewish customs, kashrut and gefilte fish.
Opening exchange between Kerler and the woman. Kerler mentions having once been in Kryzhopil (?) and asks about an older man there, apparently surnamed Vilchansky (?). He then gives the date, 4 June 2017, and names the place of this second interview.
Kerler introduces the woman, whose surname sounds like Yurkovetsky (?), and her birth in Kryzhopil (?). She has lived in Uzhhorod since 1975. During the war she was evacuated with her mother and brother, who was eight years older, to Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan, and her father served in the army and came home unharmed. She then finished school, studied at the university in Chisinau, married there, and describes her close ties with her husband's two sons and their families.
She talks about her grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Germany and Israel, including a grandson who has taken up Jewish tradition. She says she will be eighty next year, speaks of her good life with her husband, who died in a camp-like place (transcript unclear), and of his work in construction. She mentions a visit to Israel and the gift of a trip there.
She tells of her grandchildren in Israel and their affection, with some Russian. She says she speaks Yiddish with her husband and the family. She now lives alone but feels supported by her stepson's family and the daughters-in-law, who help her.
She speaks of her husband's brother's household and the harmony in the family, and of the local rabbi, whose Yiddish Kerler calls Lithuanian. She says she remembers Yiddish songs but no longer sings. She recalls Turkmenistan during the evacuation, when her mother worked as a guard and she was in kindergarten.
She recalls her good life and her husband's death, and the yahrzeit she marks each year, for which the rabbi advised her about not going to the cemetery together with a kohen. She describes her husband as a construction manager with a department head's post, the apartment they received, and the memorial stones they prepared.
She says she worked about twenty years as head of the planning department at a fish base in Uzhhorod, and lists the fish and smoked products it handled. She says she never met antisemitism from Ukrainians. She speaks warmly of her husband Arkady, and of how he praised her.
Kerler asks about the languages she spoke at home. She says she spoke less Yiddish with her mother and more with her grandmother, and speaks Yiddish in Israel. She names her parents, Prokhoyen (?) and Hanna, who are buried in Vinnitsa (?), where her father was a respected communist and chairman of an office. Her parents came from a town whose name is unclear; there were no Hasidim there, and her mother attended a closed synagogue on holidays.
Kerler asks how her parents lived in Vinnitsa (?) and mentions the Jewish quarter near the cathedral. She recalls her mother going on Rosh Hashanah and Passover and hearing the shofar blown. She says she knows Shabbat customs and does not eat pork. Kerler puts questions on the kashrut of a pig's trotter and then on gefilte fish, which she makes with honey rather than sugar (?). The talk ends on a recipe.