The beginning of the tape is a brief formal interview in Russian with Klara Mikhailovna Rykova in Vinnytsya. She was born in Odesa in 1905. She discusses her family's celebration of Passover when she was a child and characterizes her family as having been very religious. She was educated in a Russian gymnasium and married a Ukrainian. She speaks no Yiddish.

The second part of the tape is a formal interview with Dora Solomonovna Beigel, nee Pansky. (Part 1 of 3. See MDV 442 and MDV 443) She was born in 1924 in Tyvrov. She discusses her family life before the war. Her father was born in 1900 and he was a shopkeeper, and her mother Esther was born in 1901. Beigel then discusses childhood memories from Tyvrov. Her family was driven out of the town during the Stalinist terror in 1932.

The conversation then turns to religious life and customs in Hnivan' after the war. Beigel recalls how people gathered in private homes to pray after the war. Beigel compares Jewish life in Tyvrov and Hnivan'. She then talks about their life during the war, when they were forced to leave Hnivan'. Her family had to escape to her grandparents in Divots’ke where they only stayed for one week. Then they escaped to Kozlov. Beigel escaped from the ghetto. The eldest of the community bought her out, so she would not be killed. One time she escaped from bandits and met a priest with whom she stayed. Then the conversation moves to life and education after the war.