Tzentziper sings a Yiddish song about longing for the years of youth. He then talks about his family and religious tradition, before he sings the song again. He then sings another song from his childhood about a rebbe meeting a girl.
Tzentziper sings a song about the lost years of youth. Kerler asks whether he was taught to pray, whether he had a bar mitzvah or wore tefillin, and what his father did; Tzentziper says he did not pray in synagogue and that his father wore tefillin. Kerler asks him to sing the song again for Lemster, who missed it. Asked who wrote the song, Tzentziper credits a woman teacher (a schoolteacher in Mykolayiv, origin unclear) and then sings a humorous song about a rebbe who chases a girl and is sent home by his wife. He says he learned it in Mykolayiv, around 1938 (?).
Beyond the songs, the passage includes questions about his father's tefillin, bar mitzvah and prayer, and the teacher who sang the song.
Tzentziper talks about his life in Mykolayiv after the war. He states that the Jewish school in town closed down in the 1950s. He then sings his own song about Jewish fate, which he wrote a couple of years ago.
Tzentziper talks about his friends and leisure in Mykolayiv before and after the war. He says the Jewish school in town taught in Yiddish and Russian and closed around 1950 (the year is uncertain). He is evasive about whether Communists attended synagogue. He then sings his own recent song about the Jewish fate: he will set a ladder to heaven and ask God why the Jews have no place, and he asks Him to let them live well and to cast their haters into a pit. Kerler and Lemster discuss its folk models.
The passage also covers the language of the Jewish school and the question of Communists attending synagogue, and Kerler and Lemster discuss the song's folk models.
Tzentziper talks about life today. He then addresses his life during the war, in particular his wedding in Kazakhstan in 1942. He evacuated with his wife, before drafted into the Red Army. Tzentziper then discusses his family. He grew up with two brothers, one of whom immigrated to America.
After brief talk about modern prices and medicine, Tzentziper tells Lemster he married in 1942 in Kazakhstan, where he travelled with his wife after Jews were evacuated and from where he was drafted into the army. His wife came from Markuleşti in Bessarabia (Moldova) and her name is discussed; S2 and Lemster talk about Kishinev. Asked about siblings, he says one brother lives in America (named Simon, in Chicago (?)) and another, Itsik, has died.
Beyond the wartime marriage, the passage covers his wife's Bessarabian origin from Markuleşti and a talk about the Kishinev operation.
Tzentziper says his best years were after the war, when he and his wife both worked and lived well though not richly. He had two children, a daughter and a son. The grandchildren live in Israel, and a photograph is looked at. Kerler then asks about Purim customs and songs, to which Tzentziper has little to say.
Tzentziper sings the humorous Yiddish song "Varnitchkes", in which each verse asks where to get flour, a board, a pot, and a bachelor to eat the dumplings. Lemster asks about other Jewish dishes; Tzentziper names varenikes and mentions fillings. Kerler comments in Russian that a woman present may not have understood the song, and Tzentziper ends with a few words in Russian and the start of a Russian wartime song.
The passage also contains a brief exchange about other Jewish dishes (varenikes) and the closing words of the interview.
