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Henryk Prajs, a man who says he is about a hundred years old and lives in Ger (Gora Kalwaria), is interviewed in Yiddish on 12 June 2017 (camera track, one of four consecutive files). He talks about the town's Hasidic court and its visitors, weddings and a counting song, Purim, Sukkot, the yeshiva, Zionist groups, and Passover and morning greetings. Mid-sentence at the start; the last lines turn to a question about the tallit.
The interviewee speaks of Ger as a place of the rebbe's court and of the oldest Jew in town, who is about a hundred years old. Asked about wedding songs, he recalls children at weddings and a rebbe's song when the matzos were carried round the table. He also speaks of the Jewish cemetery, of which almost nothing remains apart from the wall and one gravestone, and of his grandson who will take over the upkeep.
Answers questions about Purim before the war: gifts of food, rich and poor Jews, songs, and the Purim meal and drink. He describes the Jews of Ger as 80 percent poor, 10 percent rich and 10 percent middling, and says Jews had lived in Poland for a thousand years. He names the study houses and small prayer rooms, and the cantor Dudl Kelmanovitsh in his own prayer room. His grandfather on his mother's side was Yisroel Mesing, and his father was killed when he was two.
Talks about the Hasidim who came to the Ger rebbe, how they were lodged in private homes since there was no hotel, and the crowds of up to two thousand at the High Holidays and Shavuot. He says a few non-Jews also came to ask the rebbe's advice. He tells of a non-Jewish businessman who consulted the rebbe, and ends with remarks on the Torah and faith.
Asked again about wedding songs, he recalls his own heder companions and a grandson in Smeyer Levin (?). He then sings a counting song ("Lomir onheybn tsu derklern": one is God, two the in-laws, three the klezmer, four the wedding canopy), sung at weddings after the war too, and describes the Mazl tov song and separate dancing of men and women. He answers questions on collections for poor weddings and says weddings in the cemetery did not happen in Ger.
He names the last rabbi of Ger, David Weinberg, a widower who lived with his daughter, who went with the Jews at the deportation. Kerler asks about illness, doctors and warding off the evil eye. The interviewee talks about what makes a good Jew and then is asked what Yiddishkayt means.
The interviewee gives a short statement on Jewish identity, then speaks of Hanukkah, Sukkot and sleeping in the sukkah. He mentions the large sukkah at the rebbe's court, the yeshiva head Naftali, and his own grandfather Meir Ber Prajs, who was a milk dealer and supplied Hasidim. He recalls students sent from other towns, Beys Yankev (Beit Yaakov) schools and the girls' schooling in Yiddish.
Speaks of old photographs and of the Zionist organisations in Ger: Mizrahi and Poale Zion (?), and the General Zionists. He sings or recites Zionist song lines and asks Kerler whether he knows Hatikvah. He says that few Jews in Poland now know such things, unlike in Russia.
Answers questions about Passover and the Haggadah, including comic questions, and about morning greetings in his family, where one says good morning and the other answers a good year. He talks of visitors from abroad who come to see a hundred-year-old Jew, and of a bet with a Jew from Poland over a detail in a text. The stretch ends with remarks on tefillin and tallit and a question about a part of the tallit.