The first part of this recording includes an introduction to a film. A man talks about his family, in particular about his mother and brother in prewar Warsaw. He talks about his brother’s experience during the war and his work for the Polish government. He then explains that the goal of the film is to spread the history of Polish Jews under the Nazi regime.

The next part of the tape briefly shows town footage of Kyiv.

The third segment contains a formal interview with Bella Issakovna Kipnis about her father Itsik Kipnis, a well-known Yiddish fiction writer. (Part 1 of 2. See MDV 502) She shows her father’s publications and explains family photographs. Kipnis then talks about Itsik’s life after the war. After a brief pause, she continues talking about her father’s life after the war. When he returned to his house, he found out that a Ukrainian writer had already moved in. The writer moved out a couple of days later. The tape concludes with Kipnis discussing her father’s intellectual life, as well as about his arrests and struggles.