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Third of six consecutive camera files from a session in Warsaw on 16 June 2018, with an elderly woman from Łódź (no name in the index) and Kerler, with another woman present. She talks about wartime evacuation in central Russia, her parents' work at a factory, and anecdotes. She then recalls her Yiddish school in Łódź (the Medem school), her Polish-sounding family name, her flight to the USSR in 1939, and her mother. Much of the speech is in Polish and the transcript is poor in places.
The informant talks about the war years in central Russia, apparently the Gorky/Nizhny region (the names are unclear in the transcript). She describes her father's work at a factory (zavod) and her mother's brief spell working in a children's nursery. She recalls a 2011 visit to the place with her sister and about meeting a former acquaintance who was a factory engineer.
The informant tells a comic story, hard to follow, about a woman, her husband Moshe and visitors from the government who arrive while she is cooking. Kerler responds with comments on the story.
She retells a Jerusalem joke from a booklet her son brought her, about a man in a taxi, with Kerler remarking on it. She then mentions her husband from Łódź and a friend from Australia, and Kerler recalls the friend (Wiener?).
The informant continues with the friend from Australia and her own time in Canada, then Kerler turns back to the Medem school in Łódź with its seven classes. She names the head of the school, Lozowski, who lived after the war. She mentions Czechoczinek (?) as a spa place where Israelis went before the war.
She recounts meeting an old classmate from the Medem school in Łódź at a resort, and how she recognized her by her pre-war family name. She recalls Jasne, whose father was an editor, Abraham Wolf Jasne (?), and that the whole Jasne family died in the ghetto. They talked and wept together, and she also speaks about her own surname, Birnzweig (?), which was mocked.
Long stretch mostly in Polish about the informant's surname and its Polish endings, a feminine form that she disliked, and a trip to Nancy where she photographed a monument to Stanisław Leszczyński. The Yiddish line is mostly noise. At the end tea and cake are offered.
The informant describes the Yiddish Medem school in Łódź (1936–39): seven grades, subjects taught in Yiddish, and no Polish in the first grades. Children from assimilated families were sent there too, and she lists the Polish and other lessons that followed. Kerler gives details of the postwar Yiddish schools and her teacher Lozowski, who later worked in the Ministry of Education for national minorities. The conversation ends with a professor, Karl Becker (?), whom she and Kerler both know.
She tells how a visiting friend drew a language comparison, and answers Kerler on how her family fled to Russia in 1939, crossing the border at night. Her father, a communist, understood fascism and remembered Kristallnacht. Men went first because crossing cost money, and they were workers, not rich. She speaks of her mother, an orphan from the age of six with no schooling, and of Russian enterprises recruiting workers in Lemberg and families registering for work in the USSR.