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Recording Content:
This recording is a continuation of formal interview with Riva Fridrikhovna Gimelbrandt. (Part 2 of 2. See MDV 412)
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00:00:00
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Gimelbrandt talks about her life in the Slidy ghetto in Transnistria during World War II. She describes how the two Romanians, Valentin and Stefan, in charge of the camp where killed by partisans. Gimelbrandt sings a song people composed upon the beginnings of the liberation of the ghetto. Gimelbrandt’s family was liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the liberation, Gimelbrandt’s recalls anon-Jewish men killing Jewish children, who begged for food. According to her, he killed half of the children who were imprisoned in the ghetto. |
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00:02:38
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Gimelbrandt talks about her family’s life after the liberation. Her mother lived with her children in a barn for ten days. The head of the community brought her mother a certificate to denote Chernivtsi as the family’s place of residence and served as identification; which enabled them to return. Gimelbrandt talks about her life after the war. At the age of thirteen, she was sent to work in a factory. Since Gimelbrandt was visually impaired, she was sent to a color factory in Sadgora and worked there for 42 years. |
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00:05:36
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Gimelbrandt talks about her family. She raised three children, a daughter and two sons. Her daughter died of a heart problem at 14. Her husband, a tailor, passed away at 56, three years after her daughter’s death. Gimelbrandt then mentions that her sons were circumcised in secret and that she evaded persecution when her non-Jewish doctor asked her about it. |
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00:08:20
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Gimelbrandt talks about life after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Her sister moved to Israel and suggested to Gimelbrandt and her two sons to make aliyah. Her sons, who were raised in Yiddish, made aliyah, but Gimelbrandt only went to visit twice. She talks about the good relations to her non-Jewish neighbors. |
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00:12:49
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Gimelbrandt discusses food customs and continues to cook her mother’s recipes. She then talks about health remedies, such as preventing the evil eye. |
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00:17:29
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Gimelbrandt answers a number of dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish questionnaire. |
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00:43:37
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Gimelbrandt describes the custom of preventing the evil eye. |
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