Shekhovich provides personal information and talks about her family. She then talks about her school education and discusses her childhood memories. Shekhovich studied at a trade school.
Shekhovich gives her maiden name Kamerman, her first name and her birthplace Sambor, and says her father was named Yisroel and her mother Mirl. She names several of her eight siblings (Yankev, Dovid, Itsik and sisters) and her grandmother Leye. She says she attended a Polish school and then a commercial (trade) school, and could not afford the Yiddish school. She did not work after school.
Gives the maiden name Kamerman, the parents' names and the siblings' names.
Shekhovich talks about Jewish life in prewar Sambor and holiday celebration at home. She left Sambor in 1944. She then talks about contemporary Jewish life and discusses holidays before the war.
Shekhovich talks about prewar Sambor, which she describes as a Jewish town with one large synagogue and small prayer houses. She recalls her mother's Sabbath fish and her own knowledge of how to prepare it, the Passover seder led by her father, and food made from matzo. She says she cannot remember Purim plays or a prewar wedding. Polish was the language of the town and Yiddish that of the home. She says she remembers few Yiddish songs.
Adds the home and town languages, the seder, Purim and wedding recollections, and the question about her grandson's schooling.
Shekhovich briefly addresses Yiddish songs and answers questions about cultural terminology. Shekhovich talks about her education at a religious school (cheder) and food customs.
Shekhovich briefly mentions a Yiddish song her husband sang to the children, then answers questions about words such as dybbuk and golem, which she does not know. She talks about attending cheder, her mother's candle blessing and the koshering of meat by soaking and salting, and says her mother baked challah. She describes the lack of Yiddish speakers today, even in the Hesed.
Adds the koshering of meat, the candle blessing, the lack of Yiddish speakers at the Hesed today and the dybbuk and golem questions.
Shekhovich answers questions from the AHEYM Yiddish questionnaire: greetings and farewells, thanks and please, book, window and glass, and other everyday words such as temperature and height. She says that in her family the language was Polish and Moldovan-influenced speech. Lemster explains that the recordings are for students and the archive.
Adds the explanation of the archive's purpose and the languages spoken in childhood.
Shekhovich mentions the different languages she spoke before the war, including Polish and Yiddish. She then talks about life today and before the war.
Shekhovich says that she and other children spoke Polish as they grew up and that all teaching was in Polish. She discusses Yiddish theatre visiting from elsewhere and recalls a relative from America. She tells how Jews were poor and rich and how life was difficult, and the postwar life in Drohobych. When asked about her siblings, she says she can say little, only that there were troubles under Hitler.
Adds the language of schooling, the Yiddish theatre, and the postwar life in Drohobych.
Shekhovich talks about her family. She explains that she survived World War II in hiding with the help of her non-Jewish husband. Shekhovich talks about her life before the war and remembers her grandmother reading tkhine (Yiddish-language prayer book).
Shekhovich says she was the only one of her whole family to survive the war, thanks to her husband, who risked his life to hide her. She says she can say little about her brothers' fate. She talks about reading Yiddish, Jewish newspapers and the need for money for school, and recalls her grandmother reading a tkhine and her mother's use of Yiddish. She says her husband knew Yiddish better than she does.
Adds the husband's rescue, the grandmother Leye with her tkhine, newspapers and Christians who spoke Yiddish.
Shekhovich talks about the occupations of Jews in prewar Sambor, such as shops and trade, and says some lived very well until Hitler came. She says few Jews remained after the war. She did not go back to her house, which her husband avoided, and her daughter has seen it. When asked about Purim customs and songs, she says she remembers little. Her daughter urges her in Ukrainian to recall songs.
Adds the occupations of Jews, the house after the war, and the Purim and songs questions.
Shekhovich recites the blessings said at lightning and at thunder, with Lemster asking her to repeat them. Her daughter urges her in Ukrainian or Russian to recall more songs.
