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 (09-007.01-F) -  Shelf Number: MDV 127
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Date: December 16, 2005

Participants: Reizman, Beila Naftulevna. Interviewed by Moisei Lemster.

Location recorded: Bălți, Bălți District, Moldova

Language: Yiddish

Culture Group: Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans

 Recording Content:   

This recording is a continuation of formal interview with Beila Naftulevna Reizman. (Part 2 of 2. See MDV 126)

00:00:00 The tape is a continuation of formal interview with Beila Naftulevna Reizman. Reizman talks about her life after the war, after she returned to Tighina. Three of her brothers died at the front. She explains that her home was destroyed and non-Jews stole her family’s possessions. Reizman rented out a place from her neighbor for two years. When Reizman began working at the 2:09, her and her sister were given an apartment.
00:02:20 Reizman discusses postwar Jewish life. According to Reizman, every synagogue was destroyed, but a kosher butcher worked in town.
00:03:51 Reizman talks about her parents and remembers her father kissing the mezuzah.
00:07:48 Reizman answers a number of dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish questionnaire.
00:58:52 End of recording.