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Camera file from a session in Rybnitsa (Ribnitz), 26 June 2018, with a non-Jewish woman (the index gives no name) married into a Jewish family. The whole file is in Russian. She shows photographs and a family-tree book from her husband's relatives and answers the interviewers' questions about family, Jewish holidays and customs, her children and grandchildren in Israel, and her daughter in Rybnitsa.
The woman shows family photographs: a grandson who fell in Israel, her father in uniform, and her husband. She recalls her father as a partisan in the Baltics who chaired a collective farm. She tells a family story from the war: her mother was tortured by Germans or police, and her small sister hid in a dugout and was held there by a snake.
She is asked about a Jewish community and says she attended Hebrew lessons at the Palace of Culture. The teachers came from Chișinău (?). Asked about her favourite Jewish holiday, she names the New Year and Hanukkah with some confusion. She mentions candles and a flag brought from Jerusalem.
She shows Jewish items such as candles and prayer books, and a family-tree memory book from relatives in America. It lists her husband's relatives, including a rabbi of Rybnitsa who, she says, performed a ritual on her husband. She and the interviewers discuss legends about him. She also recalls paying a man to recite a memorial prayer in Yiddish.
Asked about Jewish weddings in Rybnitsa, she describes her daughter's wedding, which she organised herself, with cakes and dancing. She says her husband's surname goes back to Riga (?), and she begins naming people in the photographs. These include cousins of her husband, his father Nikolai Tarnopolski and his sister Rachel, whose grandchildren live in Hanover.
She goes through more photographs of relatives in Germany and Kherson, the cousin Frida (Sigal by marriage), and her own grandchildren in Israel. She tells how Rachel wished her husband Motl would die first, but she died first. She mentions Ira working at the Hesed, and shows her son, daughter, son-in-law (a programmer), husband and mother-in-law.
Asked whether her husband passed Jewish tradition to their children, she shows a hamsa from Jerusalem. She says her in-laws were not especially religious and treated her as one of their own. They never urged conversion. Her wedding was a Komsomol wedding in Kherson. She describes the food she made, including sweet-and-sour dishes, stuffed fish, broths and stuffed neck, which her mother also made.
Asked about her daughter in Rybnitsa, she says the daughter and friends (Vadim Sandler, Zhenya, Natasha and others) used to gather on Fridays with wine and challah. Some friends have since emigrated. She talks about her granddaughter Masha, who performed at the Palace of Culture and won first place in a talent contest, and a grandson who dances.
She talks about her son's wedding in 2004, registered in Bulgaria with the wedding itself held in Israel. There was no chuppah because the family is baptized. She says her husband and son were circumcised, her son in Israel. Her son speaks fluent Hebrew, studied in Chișinău and Israel, and served as a sniper in reserve service. She worries about him and describes how hard she finds the heat in Israel.
She describes her birthday on 30 June and gifts from her son, including a television and a car. She says her son could no longer live in Rybnitsa and compares customs and drinking in Israel and Moldova. Her Israeli grandsons were circumcised. She is asked how her son came to circumcision, and she recalls her visits to Israel, the first in 2001. She shows photographs of the Jewish New Year and Sukkot at the Tarnopolskis' and of her mother-in-law and her sisters.
She talks about her husband's large family, with six sisters of whom only one survives at 92, and about her mother-in-law's death. She sewed curtains for her mother-in-law's flat in a hostel; she trained as a technologist in Chișinău. She talks about visiting Israel in 2001 and 2004 and about a surprise party there. She says her daughter cannot emigrate to Israel because the daughter's husband is Polish.