MDV 744 · Ernest Osipovich Halpert; Tubi Halpert

Halpert speaks Hungarian on the phone and then in Yiddish about arranging the team's further interviews, giving an address and a phone number so that a local man, a former head of the Uzhhorod Jewish community who speaks good Yiddish, can be met. Kerler asks about local prayer times (minyan only on Friday night and holidays) and for more phone numbers; then Kerler announces he will put some sentences to translate from Russian.

Also covers local prayer times, and the move to questionnaire work at the end.

Halpert and his wife answer Kerler's dialectological questionnaire, with some input from Katz. The items cover greetings and replies, thanks, words such as groats, cholent, glass, ear, dumpling, and cat and mouse, a children's rhyme about a cat (which they recite), comparatives (cold, high, fast, near), honest, pious, converts, a gentile woman, forms of address (ir, zi), farewell blessings, numbers, and sample sentences. Their answers also show Hungarian-Yiddish usage, for example mizl for luck. They add that few Jews are left in the nearby place and that Halpert remembers better with help.

The catalogue sentence is accurate: the passage opens with games and then goes through the questionnaire; the transcript also shows a child's rhyme and a closing remark about few Jews.

The team meets Naybauer, who says he is the only survivor of six children. They look for a quiet place to sit and drive toward the centre, passing three former synagogues that are now a concert hall, a phone company building and a university building. Naybauer says he was born in a village near Uzhhorod where his father worked at a military horse stud, and that his father's family came from Mala Dobron (Kish Dobron), where they lived until they were taken to Auschwitz. He also mentions needing a visa to travel and recalls cheder and matzo baking in the area.

The transcript adds the introductions and the problem of visas for travel, and that the family's village home is unclear.

At a former religious school and matzo bakery now used by the university, Naybauer says the Uzhhorod Jewish population before the war was ten thousand, and that many more (a figure he gives as fourteen or sixteen thousand) were taken from the ghetto, where he was from the first to the last minute. He says he was born in 1924.

The transcript adds the population figures and the ghetto deportations.

Naybauer describes being drafted in 1944 into the Hungarian labor battalion and being kept in the ghetto instead. At the Great Synagogue, which he says served the Jewish community until the Soviets closed it, he tells how its head, whose surname is given as Bergida (the transcript is unclear), went to Moscow to see Golda Meir to stop the closure and was arrested and sentenced to twenty-five years. He mentions the removal of the Star of David, the many small prayer houses, Hasidic life, the cemeteries, and that in 1944 Jews hid belongings in the synagogues and used a trade school as a hospital. He then talks about his family: he was the oldest of six, his father Avrom was sickly, and he carried goods for a kosher sausage maker. He also notes the family name Neubauer and an uncle named Bookbinder.

The transcript adds the hospital in the commercial school, the cemeteries and a rich uncle in America, and the family names.

At the former Great Synagogue, now a concert hall, the team talks with the staff at the entrance, with Russian and Hungarian talk about whether they can look inside and that they have come from America.