The tape is a continuation of a formal interview with Evgeniia Abramovna Shvardovskaia. (Part 2 of 3. See MDV 576 and Accession # 09-010.28-F MDV 553) They continue to discuss Jewish cultural and religious life before the war. Shvardovskaia then answers a number of dialectological questions and discusses Jewish weddings before the war. They then discuss Jewish food customs and medicine.

The conversation turns to her life during the war. In detail, Shvardovskaia describes the living situation when the Nazis arrived in 1941. They were hiding in pits with food for two days and then fled into the woods. In a village nearby, Shvardovskaia went to the house of a family's acquaintance. Shortly after, her father arrived with her sister and they hid there in the attic for three months. Then the Ukrainian friend found out that a number of Jews lived nearby and he wanted her family to join them out of fear of being discovered. When there was a panic in town, her father told her and her sister to leave and they were able to escape the shootings. They once again arrived at the Ukrainian friend’s house who took them to the woods, where they hid for one year. Before the Nazis arrived, the Ukrainians gave them food every night. When they fled again, they moved from one village to the next until they joined the Russian partisans.

Then the conversation turns to life after the war. She joined the army and worked as a nurse in a hospital in the Carpathian Mountains, where she originally ended up with the partisan group. After the war ended, she continued to serve in the army as a nurse in hospitals in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. When she was sent to Kharkiv, she ran into her sister. Overall, she worked as a nurse for 55 years. The tape concludes with discussing her family’s life today and her ambitions to live in Israel. She temporarily lived in Israel, but Shvardovskaia longed too much for her old life in Luts'k that she eventually returned.