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Recording Content:
The first part of this recording is the continuation of a formal interview with Klara Peisekhovna Shmid. (Part 2 of 2. See MDV 181)
The second part of the recording includes a formal interview with Mikhail Isaakovich Gordin. (see also: MDV 153, 154)
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00:00:00
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Shmid answers questions about cultural terminology and also addresses prewar religious life. She then speaks about her life before the war. |
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00:02:52
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Shmid addresses folk and healing customs. She shares an anecdote from before the war. |
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00:08:51
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Shmid talks about her family's life before the war. She then addresses her family, before answering questions about cultural terminology. |
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00:12:19
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Shmid talks about Purim celebrations and food customs. She then talks about her father's work and grocery shop, before remembering her mother. |
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00:16:15
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Shmid addresses prewar non-Jewish life. She then talks about her family. Her brother left for Eretz Yisrael at the age of eighteen. |
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00:20:11
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Shmid speaks about prewar Purim celebrations and food customs. She also addresses Sabbath celebrations at home. She then speaks about her family. |
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00:24:31
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Shmid talks about her education and work. After the war, she worked at a sewing factory. Shmid also talks about her family. |
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00:28:49
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The formal interview with Gordin begins. He talks about his family, as well as prewar Purim and Passover celebrations. Gordin's two brothers made aliyah. |
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00:32:44
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Gordin provides personal information, before addressing prewar Simchat Torah celebrations. He then talks about his family. |
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00:36:39
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Gordin speaks about his life during World War II. He also speaks about his family. |
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00:40:56
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Gordin speaks about his life after the war. He states that his mother died during the Hunger of 1946/47. He graduated from school in 1955 and then joined the Red Army. Gordin studied chemistry in Vladivostok, Russia, and then Chișinău. He worked as chemical engineer at a furniture factory. |
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00:43:11
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Gordin speaks about musical performances and daily life in the ghetto. |
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00:45:52
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Gordin talks about prewar religious life in Florești. He then addresses his return to Florești after the war. He was married in 1965 and raised a son, who lives in Israel. Gordin then talks about his family. |
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00:49:12
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The team concludes the formal interview with Gordin. |
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