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Recording Content:
The first part of the tape includes a continuation of a formal interview, recorded in Solotvyno with Dora Abramovna Fiksler, born in 1924 in Solotvyno. (Part 2 of 2. See Accession # 09-010.41-F MDV 638 in Rakhiv collection)
The team travels to the next interview with Hershel Ylyevich Vider in Mukacheve. After they enter his apartment, the team sets up the formal interview with Vider, born in Mukacheve in 1922. (Part 1 of 6. See MDV 590, MDV 591, MDV 592, MDV 595, and MDV 596)
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The first part of the tape includes a continuation of a formal interview, recorded in Solotvyno with Dora Abramovna Fiksler, born in 1924 in Solotvyno. Fiksler makes a number of phone calls, before they go inside to talk about Fiksler’s library, which includes prayer books. Fiksler then shows photographs of her family. Fiksler briefly talks about religious life before the war. |
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00:12:01
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Fiksler’s son Iakob arrives. He provides biographical information and talks about his family. Iakob was born in Uzhhorod. He then talks about life today. |
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00:18:41
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Fiksler recites the morning prayer “modeh ani.” She then talks about post-World War II Jewish life, in particular the kosher butcher. |
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00:22:30
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Fiksler discusses life at the beginning of World War II during Hungarian occupation, including the social and political discrimination of Jews. Fiksler remembers non-Jews speaking Yiddish, and even a Romanian boy, who attended religious school (cheder). |
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00:29:37
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Fiksler discusses the last two years of World War II. She explains that she was forced to live in a ghetto in 1944, before she was taken to Birkenau. She was then deported to Austria and worked in a factory. She was liberated by the Americans in Austria. Fiksler then talks about her life after the war, and her search for surviving family members. |
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00:32:44
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Fiksler talks about her return home. She explains that they knew nothing about the deportations before 1944. She then recalls the first days of Hungarian occupation in 1939. |
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00:36:54
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Fiksler talks about Purim in the prewar period and about Purim shpiels, during which she would dress up in costumes. Fiksler talks about Yiddish-speakers today. |
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00:50:57
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The team travels to the next interview with Hershel Ylyevich Vider in Mukacheve. After they enter his apartment, the team sets up the formal interview with Vider, born in Mukacheve in 1922. He provides personal information and talks about his family. His three brothers moved to Canada after the war. Vider then sings a Hasidic song in Hungarian, before he talks about Jewish life in Mukacheve today. Vider laments that Yiddish is not passed on to the next generation. |
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00:58:55
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Vider recalls prewar Jewish life in his home town. He attended religious school (cheder). At home, he spoke Yiddish with his grandparents and Hungarian with his parents. Vider then talks about his family. His father served in the Austro-Hungarian army. |
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