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Peresecina
 (09-007.08-F) -  Shelf Number: MDV 194
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Date: June 4, 2006

Participants: Grinshpun, Dusia Ilyinichna. Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Moisei Lemster.

Location recorded: Peresecina, Florești County, Moldova

Language: Yiddish

Culture Group: Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans

 Recording Content:   

The tape is a formal interview with Dusia Ilyinichna Grinshpun, born 1936 in Kobylna (Floresti region).

00:00:00 Grinshpun, nee Prosianoj, tells anecdotes from her work as a teacher.
00:01:54 The formal part of the interview begins. Grinshpun provides personal information and talks about her family. Her father, an accountant, was born in Lublin and her mother was born in Kobylna. She then talks about her childood in Kobylna and life during the war in evacuation. Her family evacuated to Don (4:30) and Kazakhstan when Grinshpun was four years old.
00:04:42 Grinshpun talks about her family and provides personal information. She then talks about life today. Grinshpun worked as a high school teacher for Romanian and French languages for 42 years.
00:08:48 Grinshpun talks about life today and her family during the war period. Grinshpun and her parents evacuated to Kazakhstan. Her father worked as an accountant before the war.
00:14:23 Grinshpun talks about life after the war. His father worked in village for four years, before moving to 14:42, where he also worked as an accountant. She then talks about her family.
00:18:38 Grinshpun talks about life during evacuation and her family. According to her, the family fell sick with typhus. Her brother lives in Israel.
00:21:02 Grinshpun talks about prewar Jewish life in the village Kobylna. After Grinshpun attended for years of school, her family moved to Kotozhan 22:16. Grinshphan then turns to discussing childhood memories and her family abroad.
00:28:27 Grinshpun talks about her husband and life after the war. He raised animals, in particular rabbits. Grinshpun also addresses her son's life. She then discusses emigration.
00:36:00 Grinshpun talks about her father's praying and singing. Grinshpan talks about life after the war and her family. She moved to Peresecina in 1960.
00:44:55 Grinshpun talks about life in evacuation, when she was five years old. She describes how they survived with little food and lived among Kazakhs. Her father joined her family in Nilovka, Kazakhstan coming from Stalingrad. Grinshpun also talks about food customs in Kazakhstan, before she explains how her family reached Kazakhstan via Stalingrad region.
00:56:44 Grinshpun talks about life after evacuation, after her family returned to Kobylna. Their former home was transformed into a health center and Grinshpun's family lived in a one room for a few months; before the property was returned to them.
00:58:11 Grinshpun talks about life today.
00:59:09 Address
00:59:15 Grinshpun talks about life today.
01:02:35 End of recording.