The tape is a formal interview with Rakhil Shlemovna Shames, born in 1915 in Ivanopil' (Yanushpol). She talks about her family before the discussion turns to childhood memories of Ivanopil'. When she was a child, she had a religious teacher who taught her how to read Yiddish. Her father Shleyme worked in a mill. She studied at a Ukrainian school. After graduation, she learned how to become an accountant in Ivanopil' before the war. After the war, she was an accountant in a factory for 23 years. Her mother was her only family member who survived the war in hiding. Then the conversation turns to her life in evacuation in the Urals. She rented a room from a Christian woman and worked in a factory. The interview concludes with Jewish life in Khmil'nyk after the war and life today.