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Recording Content:
The recording is a continuation of a formal interview with Bela Reti. (Part 4 of 4. See MDV 105, MDV 106, and MDV 107)
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00:00:00
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Reti speaks about contemporary Jewish life and rabbinical authorities. |
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00:01:11
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Reti speaks about his religious education and life in the region before the war. |
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00:04:51
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Reti speaks about contemporary religious life. He then speaks about his life and education before the war. Reti celebrated his bar mitzvah in Balkány. Reti states that he attended a yeshiva until his deportation in 1944. |
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00:07:59
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Reti speaks about his life after the war in Debrecen. He moved in with his two brothers. Reti was a businessman for the government. He then recalls how is father passed away in 1939. |
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00:11:19
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Reti addresses Yiddish dialects and talks about Russian Jewish soldiers during the liberation. He then talks about his family. |
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00:14:05
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Reti sings again a Purim shpiel and tells an anecdote about the Kosoner rebbe. He also addresses prewar Hasidism. |
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00:19:35
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Reti speaks about his best moments in life before the war. Reti then sings Hasidic songs, he remembers from his childhood. |
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00:23:01
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Reti speaks about Jewish life during the war and a Hungarian ethnic cleansing in 1943. |
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00:25:00
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Reti sings a Hasidic song about the messiah and then about Passover. He then talks about his life and family after the war. |
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00:29:17
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Reti speaks about his life during the war, particularly as forced laborer. He then talks about his liberation by the British Army in Ebensee, Austria. Reti remembers a Jewish lieutenant who spoke Yiddish to him. Reti explains how he evaded a potential massacre, shortly before liberation. |
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00:34:04
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The team concludes the interview with Reti. |
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