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Camera-track recording made in Ribnitsa (Rybnitsa), 2018-06-26, of an elderly woman who is not named in the index and who speaks Russian throughout. She talks about her children and grandchildren, her husband and her illness, a neighbour's funeral, her upkeep of graves in the old Jewish cemetery, family photographs, her work in social security and her visits to Israel. The file ends with questions about Hebrew and Yiddish in the family.
The woman talks about her family. Her son lives in Holon, Israel, works in a bank and has a wife from Kishinev. She has visited Israel about six times. Her husband died in 1993. Her daughter graduated in foreign languages in Tiraspol and now teaches in school No. 6, where her pupils are very fond of her.
The woman answers questions about her husband Mikhail, who was chief mechanic at a cement plant. They lived there until 1981 and then received a flat in another town (name unclear). During the national conflicts she fell seriously ill, was treated badly there, and was cured in Ribnitsa after moving back near her mother-in-law. She says their friends are now in Israel. She also describes how she keeps the Jewish holidays, with stuffed fish, pancakes, broth and matzo.
The woman tells how she and neighbours cared for an elderly Jewish neighbour, a ghetto survivor who received a German pension. After the neighbour's death she organised the funeral and ordered an expensive coffin. The police were involved, and the money left behind was handed to them for the daughter in Israel. Asked about Jewish elements in the rite, she recalls a few elderly men saying prayers. Names mentioned include Semyon Vladimirovich and Aryaya (?) Akulova.
She describes restoring two graves in the old Jewish cemetery, in the Yuzhny district near the obelisk. One belonged to her mother-in-law's parents and had been vandalised, and she paid for the restoration and kept the inscriptions. She also tends about fifteen other graves, among them relatives of people now in Israel, including the Guberman family. She visits twice a year, before Passover and on memorial days.
She shows photographs of her husband's grandfather's grave and of her grandchildren, including portraits ordered for her daughter's school. The family photos include relatives in Israel and Passover celebrated there, and her son's wife and two children. She names grandchildren Misha and Masha and says Masha is a top pupil who plays guitar and piano. She describes her tours of Israel, including the Western Wall and David's tomb. A black-and-white photo shows her as a child.
She says she has applied for Russian citizenship because of her low pension. She worked 25 years in the social-protection office and helped about six ghetto survivors, now in Israel, to obtain witness testimony. She feels at home in Israel and has learned only a little Hebrew. Her husband knew Yiddish and her mother-in-law spoke it well, so the family spoke Yiddish among themselves. She recalls a word or two.