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Luts'k
 (09-010.30-F) -  Shelf Number: MDV 575
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Date: May 8, 2003

Participants: Shvartzbroit, Etia Kalmanovna. Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger.

Location recorded: Luts'k, Volyns'ka Oblast', Ukraine

Language: Yiddish, Russian

Culture Group: Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians

 Recording Content:   

The tape is a continuation of a formal interview with Etia Kalmanovna Shvartzbroit. (Part 2 of 2. See Accession # 09-010.42-F MDV 651) She discusses her life during the war and her escape from the Pechera concentration camp. Shvartzbroit escaped from Pechera and was en route via Sharhorod toward Ozarintsy, which she subsequently left for Mohyliv-Podil's'kyy. The conversation moves to religious life in Mohyliv-Podil's'kyy before the war. When her mother did not have a child for thirteen years, she sold documents to a poor widow with many children. It happened at a time when Shvartzbroit was sick, so she would grow up in good health.

The conversation then turns to life after the war, when she opened a matzah factory in Mohyliv-Podil's'kyy, employing twenty-five workers. She then discusses her life after the escape from the camp. She was not allowed to enter the apartment of Bessarabian Jews. So, she went to stay with her relatives in Mohyliv-Podil's'kyy, yet worked for Bessarabian Jews. Then the conversation moves to her life in the Pechera camp in great detail where she arrived in 1942. The interview concludes with the discussion of a number of recipes, in particular of gefilte fish.

00:00:00 Life during war and escape from camp
00:01:17 Early childhood memories and religious life in Mohilev
00:07:20 Religious customs
00:10:09 Life today and work after the war
00:11:42 Family and life today
00:15:58 Life after the war and family
00:20:30 Early childhood memories and life today
00:27:12 Life during the war
00:36:00 Family and life before the war
00:38:40 Concluding the interview.
00:42:46 (Not described)
00:43:27 And phone call about potential Yiddish-speakers in the region
00:45:41 Religious and cultural life after the war
00:48:39 Food customs
01:00:11 End of Recording.