“When I was fourteen I had to start taking care of myself.”
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Sigrid Kubešová, née Berglová, was born on the 18th of August 1922 in Prague as the only child of a mixed marriage. Her mother was of Jewish descent. Her parents soon divorced, from her childhood she was raised only by her mother and her grandmother. Sigrid Kubešová rarely met with her father. He worked as the head doctor at the sanatorium in Kosmonosy. The Nazi occupation brought a radical change to the life of the fourteen-year-old girl. Her mother and grandmother were forcibly transported to the Terezín concentration camp in 1942. Sigrid Kubešová was subsequently deprived of her flat and all her belongings, and she had to start earning a living in the Prague paint factory Tebas as a foreign language correspondent. There she met her future husband. She was employed in the same factory for practically her whole life. After the war her husband was appointed deputy director. In 1946, they had a daughter and in 1948 a son. The witness’s main focus and priority became the raising of her children and the financial security of her family. She now lives in the Home for Social Care Hagibor in Prague.
