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MDV 483 · Aba Davidovich Kaviner

Khmel'nyts'kyy, Ukraine 6 June 2009 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger Part 2 of 2 8 min · 2 passages

One conversation with Aba Davidovich Kaviner, continuing over MDV 482, MDV 483.

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Passages

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This tape consists of the end of a formal interview with Aba Davidovich Kaviner (b. 1921, Derazhnya). Kaviner asks the research team about the AHEYM project, their other interviewees and the route of their travels.

Informal life today · MCO
From the machine transcript

Kerler talks about telephone calls made to the interviewee's household that went astray, and checks a phone number. This is arranging talk before or around the recording, not an interview about the project.

Only Kerler speaks, about a phone number; Kaviner does not ask about the project or the route.

4:21

Kaviner speaks about his family life in the postwar period, specifically talking about his wife, daughter and grandson.

after the war Family history · MCO
From the machine transcript

Answering Kerler's questions, Kaviner says he spoke Yiddish with his wife after the war. She left home early, finished school and studied at an institute in Leningrad. His daughter, a doctor, lives close by in the same courtyard. They then discuss his grandson, who works for the state in an inspection office, though the details of the work are unclear in the transcript. Kerler closes by saying the team has a long road ahead and hopes to come back.

Also covers the wife's studies in Leningrad, the grandson's job, and Kerler's closing remarks about the team's route.