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Oral history interview with Dalibor Dostál

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.439.25 | RG Number: RG-50.675.0025

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    Oral history interview with Dalibor Dostál

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Dalibor Dostál, born in 1933 in Kréta (a neighborhood in Terezín, Czech Republic), describes seeing only few Jews with a “yellow star” until 1942; the three Jews living in Terezín before the war; Jews being brought to Terezín before 1942 and forced to live in the former military barracks; being forced with his family to leave the Kreta quarter in 1942 and the Germans, collaborators, and doctors moving in; moving to Hrdly village and living there until the end of the war; attending elementary school in Terezín until 1942; the closing of all the Terezín schools in May 1942; the marching in of Jews from Bohušovice to Terezín in 1942; the guarding of the Jews by SS guard and Czech police; watching Jews marching across the crossroad close to his home; seeing some people giving food to the Jews; not seeing any order nor shouting nor beating; looking into the ghetto with other boys and seeing carts with dead bodies being taken to be buried; the flooding of the Ohře river, exhuming buried bodies; the Germans ordering the building of a crematorium; seeing trains full of Jews being transferred; several houses being built opposite their house in Kréta, where the Jewish ladies were making uniforms; seeing thousands of people marching to and from a factory; watching the train with Reinhard Heydrich’s coffin atop the cannon passing by; his father’s imprisonment during the “Heydrichiade” for listening to the radio and his death in a mining concentration camp in Bernau; the Germans who lived in their house during the war; Jews and prisoners leaving Terezín after the war; and the typhus epidemic.
    Interviewee
    Dalibor Dostál
    Interviewer
    Adam Hradilek
    Date
    interview:  2014 June 30
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Czech
    Extent
    1 digital file.

    Rights & Restrictions

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Dostál, Dalibor, 1933-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2024-01-05 13:17:22
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