The first part of the tape is footage of the Odesa orphanage “Leah’s house.” The team takes a tour of the house and the administrators explain in Hebrew and Russian the history of the building, which used to be a factory, as well as provides information about the orphanage. The orphanage is also used as boarding school with children from Ukraine, as well as neighboring countries. The team speaks to several students in English and Russian.
Footage of a tour of the Odesa Jewish orphanage and boarding school "Leah's house". Staff explain the building, the internal money and shop, the classrooms and the children's origin from Ukraine, Moldova, Russia and Belarus; the visitors speak with pupils and staff in English and Russian. The pupils speak about their subjects (mathematics, Hebrew, English), whether they have been to Israel or America, and their contact with their parents. Much of the Yiddish text is garbled.
Adds the long conversations with pupils and staff in English about their studies, origins and contact with parents.
The second brief part of the tape is the beginning of a formal interview with Isaak Naftulovich Tokar, born 1920 in Zheludok (near Grodno), Byelorussia. The team greets Tokar in his apartment and sets up the interview with him.
The beginning of the interview with Tokar in his apartment. Greetings and the first name, and the interviewers' seating, are heard; the interview proper has not begun.
Adds that the only content is the exchange of first names and invitations to sit.
