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Oral history interview with Va'clav Kubík

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.439.26 | RG Number: RG-50.675.0026

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    Oral history interview with Va'clav Kubík

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Václav Kubík, born 1920 in Nové Kopisty, Czech Republic, describes attending school in Terezín and not having any Jewish schoolmates; doing an apprenticeship in Terezín in 1940; working in a quarry in Libochovany, Czech Republic between 1940 and 1945; the three Jewish families who lived in Terezín before WWII; seeing the arrival of the first group of relocated Jews to Terezín and the restrictions placed on them; his life in Libochovany; witnessing transports of Jews to Terezín from Bohušovice; seeing people being brought by train to Bohušovice and marched to Terezín, escorted by Germans; seeing Terezín Jews building the “Jewish railway” from Bohušovice to Terezín; working in the quarry in Libochovany with prisoners of war from Russia, Poland, France, the United States, and the United Kingdom; being treated them badly by the German supervisors; the threats to and mistreatment of POWs; seeing Jewish women from the Terezín ghetto grazing sheep from Lidice after June 1942; the German laws barring German and Jewish sexual relations; how during the whole month of April 1945, he saw Jews form various concentration camps marching to Terezín; seeing numerous death marches of male prisoners near his house; seeing a death march of female prisoners on the other side of the Elbe river, during which the women carried a dead woman; trying to give food to the marching people along with his neighbors; volunteering with others to help stop the typhus epidemic at the Small Fortress at the end of the war; the arrival of Russian soldiers and their bad behavior; meeting his wife just before the war; his wife’s imprisonment for three months in Terezín fortress and the rest of the war in Ravensbrück concentration camp; his older sister, Marta, who raised him and married Mr. Košvanec; Mr. Košvanec efforts to smuggle food, medicine, and cigarettes into the Terezín ghetto; his wife’s imprisonment in the 1950s after being accused of illegal enrichment for trying to sell gold; Mr. Košvanec’s death soon after the war; being one of the 12 members of the local “Revolutionary Guard” in Nové Kopisty immediately after the war; and witnessing the execution of an SS officer in Litomerice.
    Interviewee
    Va'clav Kubík
    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 : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kubík, Va'clav, 1920-

    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:
    2023-11-16 09:25:27
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