MDV 426 · Asya (Esye) Petrovna Srulova

Srulova answers the interviewers' dialectological questionnaire, giving how she says words and phrases in the Yiddish of Zvil. Items include words for window panes, the colour of the sky, building a house, kissing, cold, fast, near, living, ill and weak, running away from the Germans, an honest or pious person, and the second-person form 'you are right'. They continue with the bed, well, potato, shop, vodka, 'back', cross, Zvil's non-Jewish name, midwife, 'what does he want', attic, wagon, a rich man, and sudden and many guests. In between she talks about food: Passover potato puddings, the Sabbath cholent and braided challah, and the family's poverty. She also recalls a taxin (?) in Zvil where relatives in America sent dollars, and Kerler explains the purpose of the archive.

The passage also contains talk about Passover and Sabbath food, the local shops, and the interviewers' account of the archive's purpose.

Asked by Kerler to tell something of the war and postwar years, Srulova says her older brothers were killed in the war. The family returned to no home, and her father worked as a shoemaker. Older sisters married and took her to live with them. She describes the children's games with a bench and a doll made from her father's shirt. She says her father's brothers in America stopped writing after the war, and that relatives' dollars were exchanged for flour and sugar in the shop. She mentions that the poverty continued and that her daughter and grandchildren abroad bought a refrigerator and a washing machine. The passage ends with mutual thanks.

The passage also covers her relatives in America and how dollars were exchanged, as well as the closing exchange of thanks.

Camera cutaway of Chortkiv, with the team at the grave of the Chortkiv rebbe and an old synagogue; the speech is mostly garbled or inaudible. Only fragments about the rebbe, a gravestone and a Russian remark are legible, so what was said cannot be described.

The transcript supports only the Chortkiv rebbe and gravestone references; the rest is unclear.

The team in Kolomyya, driving or walking while looking for Vider's home. The transcript is almost entirely garbled, with a brief Russian remark about filming a house.

The transcript shows only a few garbled words and a Russian remark about filming.

Kerler greets a man in Russian and Yiddish, reminding him of the team's visit two years before, and the team enters his apartment. The man says four of his brothers have died. There is a short exchange about a new kitchen in the synagogue and where kiddush is made. The transcript does not show the Purim-play story the catalogue mentions.

The transcript shows a conversation about the man's brothers and the synagogue kitchen, not the Purim-play story.