This recording is a continuation of a formal interview with Natan Shapiro. (Part 2 of 3. See MDV 494 and MDV 496) He continues to show family photographs. The conversation then turns to his earliest childhood memories and religious life before the war. There were five synagogues in Vinnytsya. He remembers how his father was looking for a bigger apartment in the center of Vinnytsya. He talks about his wife's written memories about a Jewish wedding in Vinnytsya. His father was a religious judge (dayan). Shapiro then talks about religious school (kheyder) and his childhood friends. He published a booklet about his life.

The conversation turns to his kheyder education and how he escaped, when he could not stand the rabbi's violence. He moved from Vinnytsya to Kyiv for community-related work. When discussing his service in the Red Army, he remembers how they called out officers, including Shapiro, to become Communists. Then he talks about the establishment of various synagogues lead by rabbis Krupitsky and Faynshteyn in Vinnytsya. In both synagogues, weddings were organized in a big hall. At the synagogue led by Faynstayn, weddings were organized with guests and klezmer musicians. He remembers that Krochyk’s synagogue had a Yiddish choir, accompanied by an organ. The tape concludes with Shapiro talking about how he was called to Moscow to attend a military meeting.