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Recording Content:
The first part of the recording is a formal interview with Efraim Berkovich, born 1921 in Berehove.
The second part of the recording includes a formal interview with Frida (Fride) Moiseyevna Pustilnik, nee Vaysberg, born 1941 in Yampil. The latter part was recorded in Boryslav. (Part 1 of 3. See Accession # 09-010.08-F MDV 389 and MDV 390)
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00:00:00
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Berkovich provides personal information. |
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00:01:17
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Berkovich provides personal information and speaks about his family. His father was a carpenter. |
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00:04:51
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Berkovich talks about his father's observance. He also addresses prewar Passover and Sabbath celebrations, including food customs, at home. |
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00:07:20
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Berkovich speaks about his family. He grew up with five brothers and one sister. |
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00:09:03
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Berkovich talks about his life before the war. He worked as a carpenter before and after the war. He then addresses his life during World War II. Berkovich was imprisoned in several forced labor camps, in Buchenwald, Mauthausen. |
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00:10:13
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Berkovich speaks about his prewar education. He attended a religious school (cheder) until his bar mitzvah. Berkovich then joined his father in the carpenter profession. Berkovich then speaks about his cheder, including the teachers. Berkovich states that he also attended a Talmud Torah school for approximately three years before his the age of thirteen. |
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00:13:42
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Berkovich addresses prewar Jewish life in Berehove. According to him, 7,000 Jews lived there. Berkovich joined the Zionist organization Hashomer Hatzair. He speaks about its youth activities. Berkovich also addresses prewar cultural life. |
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00:17:00
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Berkovich speaks about his life after the war. He was married in 1945. According to him, three hundred Jewish families returned to Berehove. Berkovich also addresses traditional weddings. |
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00:19:51
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Berkovich talks about his mother's cooking. He then speaks about his family. Berkovich raised a son, who was circumcised by a kosher butcher. |
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00:21:19
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Berkovich speaks about postwar religious life. He states that he built the synagogue door. Berkovich then speaks about his life before the war. Berkovich's parents spoke Hungarian at home. |
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00:24:46
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Berkovich talks about prewar religious life, including synagogue and communal structure, as well as his family. Berkovich recalls how his father visited the Spinka rebbe in Săpânţa, Romania. |
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00:29:54
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Berkovich answers questions about cultural terminology and speaks about the local occupational structure. |
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00:34:29
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Berkovich dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish linguistic questionnaire. |
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00:43:10
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Hodinger joins the conversation and they discuss visits of the Spinka rebbe before the war. Berkovich shares an episode when he met the Spinka rebbe's son in America. Berkovich then talks about his family and his life today. |
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00:46:07
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Berkovich speaks about his life today and why he returned to Berehove. He also talks about his family. Berkovich then addresses his life in America, where he worked as constructor for thirty-five years. |
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00:49:47
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Berkovich talks about his work after the war, including his travel to Kyiv and Moscow. He also speaks about his life today. |
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00:52:48
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Hodinger joins the conversation and they discuss prewar religious life in Berehove. |
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00:54:59
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The formal interview with Pustilnik begins. She speaks about her family. Pustilnik raised a son and a daughter. He lives in Israel. Pustilnik's father was also born in Yampil and her mother was born in Yaruga (Yiddish: Yara). Pustilnik grew up with a half-sister. |
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00:58:21
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Pustilnik talks about prewar Jewish life in Yaruga. Her mother worked on the local kolkhoz. She then talks about her family's life during the war. They were imprisoned in the Sharapanivka ghetto and then deported to the Pechera concentration camp. |
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00:59:23
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Pustilnik provides personal information. She then talks about prewar Jewish life on the kolkhoz in Yaruga, as she remembers it from her mother's stories. Pustilnik explains that the kolkhoz was divided into a Jewish and a non-Jewish one. The kolkhoz was called Petrovsk and then Lenin. Pustilnik then describes the farm production, including wine and fruit production. She also briefly addresses food customs. |
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