Singing and relationship with neighbors. Formal interview resumes, Hodinger discusses the relationship with his Hungarian neighbors, and significant antisemitism.
Hodinger answers questions about singing in Berehove, saying that Jews once sang but few are left and only a handful gather for prayer. Asked about relations with the non-Jewish neighbors, he speaks of strong antisemitism in Hungary. He also gives the numbers of Jews who lived in Berehove before and after the war and mentions those who did not return from the 1944 deportation. The interviewers then ask about further songs and Purim plays.
Gives figures for the Jewish population before and after the war and the decline of the congregation.
Purim shpiels. Hodinger resumes his discussion of Purim shpiels, and discusses going house to house singing, either alone or with his sister and her friends.
Hodinger recalls Purim plays and says he went from house to house alone to perform and collect money. His sister also went, together with a girlfriend. Shalakhmones are mentioned. The talk turns to Hanukkah and playing dreidel.
Adds that his sister and her girlfriend went along.
Hodinger continues on Hanukkah, recalling his father's friends coming to the house and playing late. Kerler then asks about the family of his sister Chana.
Adds the father's friends visiting at Hanukkah and Kerler's question about the sister's family name.
Hodinger gives information about his sister Chana, whose married name is unclear in the transcript (Isakovich?). She lives alone on the ninth floor in Haifa, in a high-rise block. She has been widowed twice, and has a son Eli, a daughter Hadina, and grandchildren. Kerler checks her details and her birth year (1924?), and offers to bring her greetings when he visits Israel.
Gives her husbands' deaths, her children's names, and the ninth-floor flat.
Hodinger is asked about old Yiddish songs and recalls a children's school song and a song about childhood memories, which he sings in part. Lemster asks whether Jews sang Hungarian songs, and Hodinger says they sang both. A second man mentions the six years of Hungarian rule and the bad years around 1938–1944. The song fragments are only partly intelligible.
Adds Hungarian songs and the remarks on the years of Hungarian rule.
The formal interview ends and the interviewers chat with Hodinger about stepping out of the room. They then talk informally about wine, including how it is stored and what vessels are used. A woman is called by name at the end.
Footage of the town, on the drive to the former Great Synagogue. Hodinger sings another short song. The team stops briefly at the home of Efraim Berkovich and speaks in Russian with his daughter. The Great synagogue is now used as a concert hall, but has a plaque on the outside commemorating the killing of Jews in 1944. Some footage of the town center.
Mostly camera-and-car talk on the way through Berehove. Hodinger sings a short song, and Kerler checks his sister's name and her flat in Haifa. The group stops briefly and speaks Russian and Romanian with people about visitors and university work, and about Efraim Berkovich's home and daughter (names unclear). Little of the content about the Great Synagogue or its plaque can be made out. Much of the speech is garbled.
Adds Hodinger's song and the sister's address details.
On arrival in Drohobych, a woman speaks Russian about her cat and dog as the team comes into the house. The remarks are partly in Russian and partly in Yiddish. Nothing about the interview itself is clear.
