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Recording Content:
This recording is a formal interview with Petro (Peretz)Tsalevich Shekhter, born 1919 in Nadvirna. (Part 1 of 2. See MDV 435)
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00:00:00
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The team greets Shekhter in his apartment and sets up the interview with him. |
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00:01:46
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Shekhter discusses his childhood memories and talks about his family. Shekhter grew with two brothers and one sister. He left his parents’ home at the age of 14 to earn his own money and worked in a factory in Ivano Frankivsk. Shekhter talks about how his was drafted for his military service two days before the outbreak of World War II. Shekhter served in the labor battalion until 1943. After his military service, Shekther worked in an artel (cooperative of workmen and peasants) in the Urals, in the city of Shverovsk* [00:03:51]. Shekhter also lived in Leningrad during the war, before he moved to the town of Zolotonosha in 1971, where he lived for twenty-five years, working in an artel. |
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00:04:11
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Shekhter talks about his life after the war and his family. After his first non-Jewish wife passed away in 1969, Shekhter married a Jewish woman. His father was a cobbler. |
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00:08:15
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Shekhter talks about his life before the war. He addresses his bar mitzvah and his education at a religious school (cheder) and Polish school. He then talks about prewar Jewish life and lists different local synagogues, including cobbler, tailor, and the Great Synagogue. Shekhter also recalls non-Jews speaking Yiddish. |
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00:12:35
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Shekhter talks about holiday celebration at home, including food customs for Sabbath. He then talks about Purim celebrations. |
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00:16:36
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Shekhter talks about his work. He worked at a factory and then as a cobbler with skills he learned from his father. His father, a shammes, and brother were also cobblers. Shekhter also discusses childhood memories and holiday celebrations, including Purim and Passover. |
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00:20:49
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Shekhter talks about his family. After the war, Shekhter and his sister were the only surviving members of his family. |
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00:24:23
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Shekther talks about Jewish life after the war, when he lived in Zolotonosha from 1971 to 1998. Before he moved to Zolotonosha, Shekhter lived in Artyomovsk (Russia). |
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00:26:50
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Shekhter discusses his childhood memories and remembers an itinerant Yiddish theater troupe in his hometown. He then briefly addresses contemporary antisemitism, before he answers questions about cultural terminology and recalls sports clubs. |
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00:37:27
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Shekhter talks about his life during the war, when he served in a labor battalion of the Red Army. Shekhter worked as a cobbler in the military. He was drafted in Ivano Frankivsk, then moved through and lived in a number of places, including Kyiv, Omsk, Sverdlovsk, Svorovski* (1943 – 1947), and Leningrad. |
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00:43:57
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Shekhter talks about life today and prewar Jewish life in Nadvirna. |
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00:53:01
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Shekhter answers questions about cultural terminology and dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish questionnaire. |
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