Zoltan Rubin Oral History
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Title
Zoltan Rubin Oral History
Description
An interview with Zoltan Rubin, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Zoltan Rubin was from KapĂşsány, Czechoslovakia. He was 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
Oral History Item
Interviewer
Bolkosky, Sidney M
Interviewee
Rubin, Zoltan
Date Recorded
1983-01-12
Collection
Citation
“Zoltan Rubin Oral History,” Michigan Oral History Database, accessed January 1, 2025, http://www.database.michiganoha.org/items/show/1269.