The first part of the tape includes town footage of Ovruch, which was collected on the way to a formal interview with Raisa Borisovna Turovskaia, nee Feldman. (Part 1 of 3. See MDV 631 and MDV 632) When the team arrives, they greet Turovskaia outside her home, before walking inside the courtyard to conduct the interview. At the beginning of the interview, Turovskaia briefly discusses her family and potential interviewees from the region.

The conversation turns to her work as a History teacher, before they discuss the Volednicker rebbe and how her family consulted a tzaddik ("a guter yid") for advice. She then talks about her childhood memories in Novyye Veledniki. In particular, she remembers devoting a lot of time to studying and working. She also recalls the typhus epidemic. Turovskaia attended a Yiddish school for four grades. Then she tells episodes in great detail from her father's life during the Civil War in 1919. When he attacked bandits (Kharas from Kobyl'ye) for the first time, he was fourteen years old. Turovskaia's father was earning money by selling food in Rusov. Bandits wanted to steal his food on the Sabbath when he rested. Another story involves her grandmother. One night, a tzaddik appeared in her dreams. When she told her husband, he decided to name his son (Turovaskaia's father) after the tzaddik, Yisroel Dov Ben Shleyme.

Turovskaia continues to talk about her family's life during the Civil War, encountering Cossacks. The conversation moves to her family's difficult life during the 1930s. Turovskaia then retells a number of stories about the Volednicker rebbe including the following stories: the tzaddik advised his followers to dream good things; a family that was travelling on a sleigh, lost their child on the way. When they came to the tzaddik, he sent a wolf to look for the child and to keep it warm until its parents arrived. Another story involves a dybbuk (possessing spirit) inside a dog. Her father had to rest at someone's place during the Sabbath and encountered a crazy dog. Turovskaia then talks about her childhood friend Roze, before she explains her religious customs today, especially Kaddish-saying on yahrzeit (the anniversary of a relative's death).

They then discuss food customs, in particular making meat kosher. Then they talk about Velvl der Khapner or Trefer. For instance, during the war when the Germans invaded, he was asked who will win the war. He told the people to bring him a white and red rooster to fight. Whichever rooster will gain victory means that this is how the war will be decided. The red rooster beat the white one, which meant that the Soviets will win the war, according to the Trefer. He also predicted that people had difficult days ahead. They then discuss Turovskaia's childhood memories of Jewish life in Novyye Veledniki, before she talks about her family during the prewar years. She talks about her brother, who was shot by Germans, after being informed on by someone else. They then discuss prayers for "bentshn likht" (lighting the Sabbath candles), as well as other prayers, before they talk about speaking Yiddish within the family. The tape concludes with a discussion about celebrating holidays before the war and today, in particular Passover and Purim.