This recording is a continuation of a formal interview with Faina and Semyon Braverman. (Part 3 of 4. See MDV 496, MDV 497, and MDV 499) She continues to talk about visiting artists and plays in Sal’nitsa (Yiddish: Solkhov). Her mother invited the impoverished artists to their home. Faina then talks about the Russian doctor Solovyov in Solkhov, as well as other town people. Faina remembers Yiddish lullabies, then she discusses the hunger in 1932. Her father worked as an inspector for factories in the region. He was supposed to make sure that no metal was wasted. She remembers the beginning of the hunger and how her mother helped out non-Jewish neighbors.

Faina then discusses life in Jewish Solkhov before the war. There was a synagogue and a prayer-house (kloyz). Her grandfather would pray in the kloyz. Her mother took her to the mikvah (ritual bath). She mentions a few of her own presentations in Russian about her home town. The conversation turns to the 1930s, when the Soviets closed down Yiddish schools in 1935. They then discuss the relationship between Jews and non-Jews and early childhood memories of Solkhov. Roughly 4,000 people lived in Solkhov, of which 1,000 were Jewish. Braverman then talks about her return to Solkhov after the war and more childhood memories, in particular about Polish neighbors.