Krasner shows family photographs: her mother Khaike, an aunt Mindl who lived with the family, and cousins. She points out a picture at Pechera, saying the window there was theirs, and tells in Yiddish and Russian of Germans loading people onto a truck, with prayers and cries in the camp. Kerler asks whether her written memoirs are in Yiddish (they are in Russian), and she comments on Romanians who were good to people. She ends with a story of a girl needing a match, a childhood photograph, and a brief exchange about Rosh Hashanah.
Also family members including aunts, and her written Russian memoirs.
Informal talk while the team prepares to go out for a walk: Kerler repeatedly asks Krasner to speak Yiddish rather than Russian. They discuss homemade liquor and a story of someone taken to the forest, and Kerler asks for children's rhymes and counting rhymes. She recalls playing with a doll as a girl, and tells how she led her blind uncle to the bread shop, where they were told not to speak Yiddish. Some words are asked, such as the Yiddish for cherry. The passage ends with a Russian-language exchange on rings and a Jewish singer.
Includes the dialect questions (rhymes, words) and the Russian-language exchanges.
Krasner and the interviewers talk about dialect differences, with an example of the verb for falling and a Lithuanian-born woman in a mixed marriage. She describes her mother as a mimic and storyteller who made fun of people, a trait she says passed to herself. Her father, a bookbinder before the war, and her brother are mentioned. The passage ends with Kerler asking who the local tzaddik was.
Includes a dialect question and talk about a Lithuanian woman and her mixed marriage.
Krasner speaks about the local tzaddik Rebbe Shlomo (as the name appears), also known by other names, and his daughter Feygele. The daughter married beneath her status, the son of a shoemaker or tailor, and the couple emigrated to Romania in the early 1920s. A boy of the rebbe's household drowned bathing in the river. Kerler asks how old the rebbe was and whether her mother remembered him.
Adds the rebbe's daughter's marriage and emigration and the drowned boy.
Krasner tells of a Russian customer in a shop, and of being Jewish, then answers questions on words such as 'modest', 'drunk', 'brandy', 'hat' and 'kippah' in Yiddish. She describes leading a group of Hasidic pilgrims to the rebbe's house and grave, with the rebbe's son Itsikl carried by Hasidim, and the dancing at the grave. Left-handedness is chatted about. She recalls the Pechera camp, where prisoners died of hunger and a starving Jewish youth ran about naked.
Adds the Pechera memory of starving prisoners and the dialect word elicitation.
Krasner tells of a hungry Romanian-Jewish youth, Maksik, who begged for bread at Pechera, and of a missing toilet in the corridor. Kerler asks how a word is said in Yiddish; the matter of a Yiddish word for a board or worker is asked, though the transcript is garbled. In Russian a woman is told to put money away safely and to prepare food for the guests.
Krasner and Kerler discuss the Yiddish words for kitchen and a board. She describes how gefilte fish was prepared: cleaning the fish, the onions, eggs, pepper and matzo flour, and the pot. She then talks about the evil eye (nare) and an incident of three women. Finally she recalls Passover at home before the war: preparing the house, searching for and burning leavened bread, baking matzo with a stamp, and koshering with hot stones.
Adds the evil-eye talk and details of matzo baking.
