Secret Expeditions to the Ghetto
Throughout the entire Second World War, the mother of Taťána Bubníková helped prisoners in the Terezín ghetto. She did so using various methods. Ms. Taťána recalls that her mother, for example, went to the Terezín ghetto to get information about the prisoners: “Once a family friend visited us and he told us that his friend was taken to Terezín. He wondered if we possibly knew something about him. So my mother decided that she would try to get into the ghetto. She put on the Jewish Star and passed by the guards. People wearing Jewish Stars were usually not controlled. She really managed to find that friend. He survived the entire war in Terezín, and long after the war was over, he still visited my mother and thanked her for her help.”
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Taťána Bubníková, neé Kalinová
Taťána Bubníková, maiden name Kalinová, was born in 1931 in Prague, she grew up in Bohušovice nad Ohří. Her father was a tailor, her mother a couturier. The occupation found her in the primary school. As an eleven-year-old girl she used to go to Terezín with food for the transported and used to carry letters from there with information for the families of the transported. These illegal activities were practiced also by both her parents, especially her mother, (in 1940 and 1943 she gave birth to two more boys). In 1945, Taťána went to the business school in Litoměřice. As a daughter of a trader she had problems to find work. In 1953, she married Bohuslav Bubník. She moved to Mělník and started to work in the Vitana company. After the maternity leave she entered the accountant position in a state farm. To get a kindergarten place for her two children, she signed the membership in the Czechoslovak Women’s Federation. In 1960, she started to work at the district agriculture authority in the financial department, and later in the school department. She never reached the leader position, due to the fact that she refused to enter the Czechoslovak Communist Party. She retired in 1986. After the Velvet Revolution, she and her husband joined the efforts to renew the activity of the physical training institution Sokol and she has remained active in it ever since.