The first part of this recording includes some footage of the synagogue in Berdychiv, while the congregants are getting ready for the afternoon prayer. The team informally chats with Mikhail Aronovich Vainshelboim.

The second part of the tape includes two formal interviews with Sonia Dubinskaia, born in 1927, and then Isaak Bakmayev in the courtyard of the synagogue. Dubinskaia talks about the Nazi killings of her family during the war, before she talks about her family in general. Her parents were born in Berdychiv. The conversation turns to life during the war, when Dubinskaia fled the Germans with her sister into evacuation to Uzbekistan. She remembers how Uzbeks often helped them out with food. They returned to Berdychiv in 1945. Dubinskaia then talks about life today and her relatives in Germany, as well as her Yiddish school education. The team then asks questions about cultural terminology and she talks about her husband.

After they conclude the interview with Dubinskaia, the team moves on to the next formal interview with Bakmayev, born in 1929. He begins by talking about his family. His mother gave birth to twenty-three children, but only five remained alive after the war. Before the war, his family lived in the synagogue building, which was used as a laundrette for soldiers with living quarters at the back during the Soviet period. The conversation turns to life during the war. He describes the moment when the Germans came to Berdychiv in 1941 and set up a ghetto. His father successfully hid five of his children for the entire duration of Nazi occupation. Bakmayev's family hid in the basement of a neighboring house, along with another family, the day the German entered Berdychiv. They would go out to beg for food in town in the early mornings. The conversation returns to Bakmayev's family. He talks about his father's work as a cobbler, as well as his brother's education at a Yiddish school.