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Recording Content:
The first brief part of the recording takes place outside when the team walks with Hirsch to his home in order to conduct the interview with him.
The second part of the recording is a formal interview with Edmund (Khayim Aryeh) Hirsch, born 1924 in Ludus. (Part 1 of 3. See MDV 260 and MDV 261)
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00:00:00
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Hirsch and the team are headed to his home. |
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00:01:07
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The formal part of the interview begins. Hirsch provides personal information and talks about prewar Jewish life in Luduș. According to him, 600 Jews lived there. |
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00:03:40
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Hirsch talks about his life during World War II. He was confined to a ghetto in Southern Romania between 1941 and 1944. He then talks about his family. His parents and sister moved to Israel in 1960. Hirsch grew up with a sister and a brother. His brother was arrested for political reasons, Hirsch explains. |
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00:06:53
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Hirsch provides personal information and speaks about his education. He attended a religious school (cheder) and a Romanian Jewish school for four years. Hirsch also studied at a Talmud Torah school for two years. He then moved to Târgu-Mureş to attend a secondary school, which he attended for three years. Hirsch also addresses antisemitism during those years. |
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00:09:52
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Hirsch addresses Jewish life in the region during World War II. He was forced into the Turda ghetto, before taken to forced labor. |
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00:12:51
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Hirsch speaks about his family. His father was born in a village near Luduș and was a grain merchant. Hirsch's son lives in Israel and made aliyah in 1987. |
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00:16:43
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Hirsch talks about prewar Jewish life in Luduș. He then addresses antisemitism. He grew up speaking Yiddish and Hungarian. |
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00:21:34
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Hirsch speaks about Jewish life in the region during World War II. He then addresses his time as forced laborer at a stone quarry in 22:56. Hirsch then recalls Romanian soldiers who returned from a massacre in Odesa. |
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00:30:50
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Hirsch speaks about his family's life and Jewish life in general during World War II. He shares an episode about Jewish prisoners in 1942. |
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00:35:13
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Hirsch mentions a pogrom in Dorohoi after the war. He then addresses prewar religious life in Luduș. He also mentions the local cemetery. |
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00:38:07
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Hirsch speaks about contemporary Jewish life. He worked as secretary for the communities of Dej and and Bistriţa for fifteen years. |
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00:39:55
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Hirsch speaks about his life after the war and family. He moved to Dej in 1960. In particular, he talks about his brother, who was imprisoned in 1942, accused of working for an illegal radion station. Hirsch explains that his brother returned home from forced labor in 1944 and died of tuberculosis shortly thereafter. |
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00:44:54
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Hirsch speaks about his cheder education and prewar Jewish life in Luduș. He also addresses the population structure of the town with a majority of non-Jews. He also addresses his family. |
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00:53:53
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Hirsch speaks about contemporary Jewish life in the region, as well as prewar Jewish life in Dej. |
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