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MDV 358 · Mikhail Aronovich Vainshelboim

Berdychiv, Ukraine 9 January 2009 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger Part 2 of 2 3 min · 2 passages

One conversation with Mikhail Aronovich Vainshelboim, continuing over MDV 357, MDV 358.

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Passages

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Food customs and life today

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From the machine transcript

Vainshelboim speaks of his wife making fish and baking bread, and invites the interviewers to visit again. Kerler and he exchange remarks about where they live and about the need to leave for Kyiv, so they cannot stay now. Vainshelboim then mentions a German photographer or artist who wrote a history of how he survived. He says he took the man to the place where Jews were shot and where he jumped down from the bank (details unclear).

The transcript shows his survival of a shooting and a German historian-photographer, which the catalogue does not mention.

2:26

Concluding the interview

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From the machine transcript

Closing exchange of blessings and farewells between Vainshelboim and Kerler. Vainshelboim tells how visitors from England or America asked him his age, and he said that God counts the years and people need not. Kerler asks about his year of birth, which is unclear in the transcript, and then says goodbye.