This recording is a continuation of a formal interview with Boris Naumovich Khandros. (Part 2 or 3. See MDV 505 or MDV 507) He talks about Shloyme Roytman, who was the secretary of the Jewish section of Soviet writers in Moscow. He encountered Roytman numerous times.

Then he talks about his service in the army at the end of the war. He arrived in Grabovets in summer 1945 and remembers the town’s destruction. They went to a house where a family hid Jewish families. The Jewish families were deported and the owners were executed. Khandros then talks about how he experienced the end of the war. He recalls how Germans were standing around on May 1, 1945 and copies of the newspaper Völkischer Beobachter were scattered. His division was traveling around Ukraine that day. A comrade, who went around announcing Germany’s surrender, was shot by a German.

The discussion turns to Khandros' school education, in particular studying German. He then talks about a poem, published in the Moscow anti-fascist newspaper Rote Fahne and his cultural activities during the postwar Soviet period. The conversation returns to his Yiddish school time in Ozarintsy (Yiddish: Ozarinets) and about well-established educators. Khandros returns to discussing his family and the history of the Yiddish school where his father taught. It existed between 1922 and 1945. The Black Book of the Holocaust is briefly mentioned. He then talks about his grandmother Sure who died at the age of 35. The conversation turns to prewar religious life in the 1920s and his father’s religiosity. The rabbi’s name in Ozarinets was Gedalye Roytberg. The tape concludes with Khandros addressing Yiddish and Russian writers he studied at the Yiddish and Ukrainian schools.