This recording is a formal interview with Ida Shayevna Berzon, nee Sharman, that takes place in the Berychiv synagogue. Berzon was born in 1926 in Berdychiv. She discusses Jewish religious and cultural life in Berdychiv before the war. Her father was a sieve-maker and her mother helped him. Ida completed four grades in a Jewish school. She then had to switch to a Polish school because the Jewish school was shut down before the war. She then discusses her family's life during the war. She remembers how people came on carriages to Berdychiv from Poland to escape the Germans in 1939. Then the conversation turns to relations with non-Jews during her childhood. The interview concludes with education and work before and after the war, as well as with Yiddish songs. She explains that courses on Jewish history were not offered during the Soviet period.

The camera then turns to the next formal interview with Semyon Lazarevich Berzon, Ida’s husband, who was born in 1923. He worked as a photograph retoucher. His mother Chane Lifshe was a cook before the war and a seamstress after. He went to a Jewish school in Berdychiv for seven years. The tape concludes with a humorous Yiddish song about Jewish faith.