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MDV 632 · Raisa Borisnova Turovskaia

Berdychiv, Ukraine 26 May 2007 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Moisei Lemster Part 3 of 3 35 min · 6 passages

One conversation with Raisa Borisovna Turovskaia, continuing over MDV 630, MDV 631, MDV 632.

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Passages

0:00

Explanation of photographs

From the machine transcript

Turovskaia goes through family photographs with Kerler and Lemster. She identifies her parents with a grandchild, a sister who lives elsewhere and corresponds with her in Yiddish, and her grandmother Reyzl, who was known as a beauty. She also shows her husband, whom she met through work and who was older than she, her children and a daughter who lives in America. Much of the Russian background talk concerns the filming of the pictures.

Names her husband, sister, children and grandmother and mentions a daughter in America.

12:40

Leaving Turovskaia’s home

Informal · MCO
From the machine transcript

Turovskaia and Kerler take leave of each other with mutual wishes for health and for joy from children and grandchildren. They speak of the interviewer's coming summer in Israel. A Russian exchange follows in which a name is spelled out (Shepelski(?)) and an address is given.

Shows the exchange of a name and address.

13:30

Collecting town and scenery footage driving from Ovruch to Berdychiv

Footage · MCO

16:42

Town footage of Berdychiv

Footage · MCO

20:24

Synagogue of Berdychiv

Footage Synagogue and prayer · MCO
From the machine transcript

In the Berdychiv synagogue Kerler and Lemster speak with several congregants about praying and about a minyan. They recall that the team had visited before, in winter and summer, for interviews, and mention a late rabbi (called a tsadik(?)) who was ill in 2005. A congregant relates that a Jew ran out of a mass-killing pit during the German occupation. A man introduces himself as Berzon, born in Berdychiv, says he lost an older brother, fought at the front and was invalided, and the interviewers ask to speak with him and his wife. Much of the stretch is garbled.