This recording is a continuation of a formal interview with Faina and Semyon Braverman. (Part 4 of 4. See MDV 496, MDV 497, and MDV 498) Faina continues to discuss early childhood memories and prewar religious life. Faina remembers the celebration of holidays, in particular of the Sabbath. The conversation then turns to food customs, especially gefilte fish. Faina and her husband also talk about non-Jewish neighbors, who spoke Yiddish in Sal’nitsa (Yiddish: Solkhov) and Zhmerynka. Then the team turns to Semyon Braverman, from Zhmerynka, for a brief formal interview.

He discusses his father’s life and his father's biography, which was published in a book. Then Semyon talks about Jewish life in Zhmerynka before the war. Semyon then talks about friends who wanted to leave the Soviet Union to live in Israel immediately after 1948. They were sent to the gulag as a punishment for a letter asking for permission to leave the Soviet Union. The conversation moves to a theater group in Zhmerynka after the war. Faina then shows her copy of the tsene-rene (women’s bible) published in Vilnius in 1822. The tape concludes with Semyon showing the diploma of a friend, Roza, from a Yiddish school, and showing the Yiddish newspaper “Eynikeyt” (unity).