Zoltan Rubin - January 12, 1983
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Zoltan Rubin was born in Kapúsány, Czechoslovakia. He is the youngest child in a large family of eight sons and three daughters. His family was fairly well off since his father owned a large farm and several mills. Zoltan and his parents were protected from deportation by an economic exemption until 1942 when the exemption was eliminated and his parents were deported. Zoltan was able to avoid deportation by using Gentile papers given to him by friends. In 1944, he was captured with a group of partisans and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp near Jena where he was part of a forced labor detail digging tunnels for the Germans. Towards the end of the war, he escaped with three others and lived off the land for about six weeks until the American army arrived in the area. He was later reunited with an older brother who was a doctor with the Czechoslovakian army.
- Pre-War Life
- Family
- Father and Brother
- Extended Family
- Religious Life
- Relations with Non-Jews
- Czechoslovakian Leadership
- Increased Anti-Semitism
- Arrest of Father
- Possibilities of Leaving
- First Deportations
- Economic Exemption
- Deportation of Parents
- Attempt to Rescue Parents
- Failure to Find Parents
- Joining the Partisans
- Fate of Family
- Jena
- Jews in P.O.W. Camps
- End of War
- Reaction to Persecution of Father
- Return Home
- Immigration to Canada
- Talking About Experience
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