This recording is a continuation of a formal interview with Raisa Rusakovskaia. (Part 2 of 3. See MDV 510 and MDV 512) They discuss religious customs. Rusakovskaia then talks about her evacuation at the beginning of World War II. They traveled to Kyiv, but had to return to Chornobyl' because it was too crowded at the station. However, they decided to travel to Dnipropetrovs’k to see a friend. Her friend was a relative of Lazar Kaganovich.

They sent a special evacuation train to save Kaganovich's relatives and Rusakovskaia’s family was able to join them. They were asked to transfer to a heated goods van at the central station in order to head further toward Central Asia. They worked at a kolkhoz (collective farm) next to Stalingrad. When the fighting at Stalingrad began, they saw shooting planes. Hence, her father decided to move on, despite the difficulties to find transportation. Another family with a wagon and two horses also got ready to leave. When their wagon broke before they could leave, Rusakovskaia’s father, trained as a carpenter, helped them to fix it. This was her family's opportunity to leave the kolkhoz. On their way, they saw many evacuating vans moving toward Central Asia and Siberia. They took her family to a town that had a military factory, where they found work until the war ended. Her family returned to Chornobyl' in 1945. Upon their return, her father purchased a ruin and built a house. Rusakovskaia moved to Kyiv in 1967. The team then asks her a number of dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish questionnaire. In between dialectological questions, she talks about Jewish weddings before the war.