The tape is a continuation of a formal interview with Evgeniia Abramovna Shvardovskaia. (Part 3 of 3. See Accession # 09-010.30-F MDV 576 and MDV 577) She answers a series of dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish questionnaire.

The second part of the tape takes place in Kovel' with a formal interview of Boris Matveevich Gershtein, born in 1926. (Part 1 of 4. See MDV 554, MDV 555, and MDV 556) They discuss potential Yiddish-speakers of the region, in addition to him showing his native village Holoby, near Kovel' on the map; where thousands of Jews were killed in the woods. His father Mordkhe worked in a slaughterhouse in Holoby. His mother Gitl was a tailor and worked together with another woman. They were six children at home.

Then the conversation moves to his early childhood memories. He went to a Jewish school in Holoby for seven grades. For three years, he also attended the religious school in the synagogue with the teacher Berl Shuster. The teacher hit the students as a punishment for not studying. The tape concludes with Gershtein talking about his escape at the beginning of the war when he and his friends left on carriages at night.