A man introduces a film about his family. He remembers his mother as a poor, pious widow with ten children and his brother Shmuel, who used the name Artur and was a Bund leader in Warsaw. Artur organized the underground, spoke against the ghetto, escaped through Belgium and France, and represented Polish Jews in the Polish government in London. He took his own life in protest in 1943 (?), and the film, in Polish with English subtitles, is about him. Part of the talk is translated into Russian by another speaker.
Kipnis's apartment, with Kerler and others present. They talk about a book dedication and an inscription, and the conversation includes remarks about the interview and the earlier conversation. The transcript is fragmentary and the topic details are unclear.
Kipnis shows Kerler her father's published books and volumes and explains family photographs. She identifies her older sister, her brother Leonid, her father's brother Herschel, a nephew and nieces. Kerler says that he comes from Podolia and talks about how Yiddish is spoken. Kipnis also mentions the 1996 Yiddish celebration in America. Some Russian is mixed in.
names the relatives in the photographs and Kerler's Podolian origin
Kipnis speaks about the commemoration of her father, Itsik Kipnis, as a Yiddish writer, including a prize and media coverage. She recalls that after he came to Kyiv in 1944 (?), he went on the second day on foot to Babyn Yar. Kerler then sets up the microphone and explains the archive project at Indiana for recording spoken Yiddish, culture and literature. He says that they live near Chicago.
includes Kerler's explanation of the archive project
Kipnis tells about her father's life after the war. On his return to Kyiv he found his apartment occupied by a Ukrainian writer, broke in, and the occupant left a day or two later. She describes his arrest, his imprisonment in Kyiv, his exile to Karaganda, and the censored letters he was allowed to write. After his release he returned to Kyiv and to the family home, and later he was allowed to live outside the city with his older sister Dina.
adds the occupied apartment, arrest, Karaganda and the return
