MDV 199 · Ida Nukhimovna Boiarskaia

Asked whether people sang in the ghetto, Boiarskaia says nobody did, because people were afraid. She tells of a learned man named Yisroel (?), a fellow prisoner who wrote down life in the ghetto on scraps of paper and died after the war. She recounts how her family fled in 1941 toward Krasne (Krasni Okny), where Germans and Romanians seized thousands of people. The learned man collected gold from the prisoners to buy them off; the guards got drunk and the family escaped through the hills and villages back to their town, where a great slaughter was under way. She answers Kerler's questions about who carried out the killings, saying it was the Romanians, with the Germans passing through earlier. The passage ends with Kerler's question about vodka among Jews in her village.

Names Krasni Okny as the place of capture, the buying-off of the guards and the killings in the home town, and says nobody sang.

Boiarskaia first says her father drank little wine in old age, only a little brandy for the Sabbath. Most of the passage is Kerler's questionnaire, in which he gives Russian words and short sentences for her to put into Yiddish. Items include greetings, thanks, house/houses, mouse, belly, colours, adjectives (old, healthy, deaf, mute), time and place adverbs, pronouns, numbers and years, and verbs of speaking, hearing, seeing and coming. Also asked are terms for Christians, convert and field worker, Sabbath-day words, and religious terms such as 'light of paradise' for the dead and cantor and rich man in the synagogue. She says the few Jews in the village lived on good terms with their neighbours, who did not call them 'zhid'. Lemster joins with some suggested forms.

Besides the questionnaire, it shows her remark on her father's drinking and on good neighbourly relations.

The interview closes in a brief exchange in which Boiarskaia says she understood the interviewers were writing a book, and Kerler responds.

Camera material in the synagogue (Rîbniţa according to the catalogue; the transcript does not name it) with Kerler and Lemster talking mostly in Russian, with some Yiddish, about the building. They discuss the painted decoration and the ceiling, and who built and painted it; another voice asks a short question. The transcript is fragmentary.