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Camera file (fourth of six consecutive files) from a Warsaw session of 16 June 2018. Kerler talks in Yiddish with an elderly woman, with a second woman, Agnieszka, also present, and Polish and Russian interjections. The topics are her father's work and a return visit to the small town where she was evacuated, her war-time work, the loss of her father's relatives, and Yiddish and Soviet Yiddish books, authors and poems.
Opening chat and food among the people present, with Polish and Russian remarks. The woman tells an anecdote about an American Jew she met in a place named Yanta (?) who could no longer eat now that he was rich. She then answers questions about her father, whom she met in Lemberg, and about the hard times and lack of housing there. The end of the stretch is about exchanging telephone details.
Kerler asks what the father worked at in Lemberg and about the small town near Gorke (?) where the family was sent, whose name is uncertain (Bikse (?)). She recalls her return visit there in 2011 as a delegation, and the wooden houses. They discuss the Yiddish and Polish words for 'house' and Kerler's name Berl. She says she has plenty of time to talk as a pensioner.
She says she now has no Jewish friends and the two discuss the name Nachum. They talk about reading Yiddish: she reads it only in phonetic transcription, not in Hebrew letters, and remembers the Folkshtime. She recites a humorous Yiddish story, remembered from a book, about a tailor and a coat for the eldest son. Kerler asks about the author, and she names Kadye Molodowsky.
She talks, in Polish mixed with Yiddish, about the actress Faina Ranevskaya and the jokes attributed to her, in a Russian book her son brought her. They discuss how many of the jokes were invented under her name. She tells an anecdote about Ranevskaya and Brezhnev, 'Leonid Ilyich'.
The conversation turns to Soviet passports, the actress Lyubov Orlova and her wealthy family, and then to the woman's war-time work in the evacuation town. She was a helper, a machinist(?), and the factory made tank parts, which was secret. After perestroika she could go back, and she wanted to visit with Russian teachers, but as a foreigner she was refused for a long time.
She mentions a return visit to the evacuation town in 2011 and a visit abroad. She says that after the war she met friends abroad and that life was hard, with hunger. She says her father had four sisters and their children, and none of them survived; Kerler echoes the phrase for 'no trace left' (?).
Kerler asks whether she knows an unfamiliar word for a belief or fashion of thought, and she does not. She says Yiddish is no longer spoken at home and mentions the book her son brought. She recalls the Soviet Yiddish poet Leib Kvitko, recites a fragment from him, and says Kerler's father knew him.
Kerler and the woman discuss Yiddish writers: Peretz Markish, Moyshe Teyf (?), Abraham Reisen and Leib Kvitko, and children's poetry. Kerler explains that Reisen lived in America and wrote many poems, some for children, and a poem about a child who speaks several languages. She recalls a few lines, 'dark and wet'. She also says she watches only the Polish news channel. Kerler asks about Yiddish radio in Poland after the war, and the stretch ends with a question about her mother.