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Mukacheve
 (09-010.32-F) -  Shelf Number: MDV 595
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Date: July 5, 2005

Participants: Vider, Hershel Ylyevich; Nayman, Moyshe. Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Dovid Katz.

Location recorded: Mukacheve; Klyachanovo, Zakarpats'ka Oblast', Ukraine

Language: Yiddish

Culture Group: Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians

 Recording Content:   

The first part of the tape is a continuation of a formal interview with Moyshe Nayman, recorded in Klishanov. (Part 4 of 4. See MDV 592, MDV 593, and MDV 594)

The second part of the tape consists of a continuation of a formal interview with Hershel Ylyevich Vider, recorded Mukacheve. (Part 5 of 6. See MDV 589, MDV 590, MDV 591, MDV 592, and MDV 596)

00:00:00 The first part of the tape is a continuation of a formal interview with Moyshe Nayman, recorded in Klyachanovo. Nayman answers a number of dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish questionnaire.
00:12:22 The second part of the tape consists of the continuation of a formal interview with Hershel Ylyevich Vider, recorded Mukacheve. Vider shows a number of photographs: family, a postcard from the synagogue of Mukacheve, Frume’s (daughter of Haim-Elazar Shapiro) wedding, Mukacheve ghetto, Hebrew school, and Haim-Elazar Shapiro. He then shows several documents and newspapers.
00:24:38 Vider talks about his life after the war, when he returned from the Vorkuta gulag. He explains that initially, he was not allowed to return to Mukacheve, because Vider was told that it did not belong to the Soviet Union then. Vider was sent to Nadvirna. When the war broke out he was sent to prison in Nadvirna, before he was sent further to the Vorkuta gulag. Vider continues that upon arrival in Mukacheve he did not find his parents or relatives and stayed with a friend. He worked several odd jobs before settling for the mineral water facility in Svalyava, where he remained for twenty-three years as chief of a department. He explains that he could not become director of the factory without a party membership.
00:32:18 Vider answers a series of dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish questionnaire. Vider recalls a non-Jewish girl running errands for his family for Sabbath celebrations.
01:01:22 End of Recording.