The mountain where Bernard Gubitsch is buried

The mountain where Bernard Gubitsch is buried

This is a photo of the place where my father, Bernard Gubitsch, died during World War II. I took this picture in the 1950s. Our mother survived, but our father died in her arms in the mountains. They were hiding in a cabin up above Horny [Upper] Jelenec. My father had diabetes, and his feet got frostbitten, he got gangrene... He's buried above Horny Jelenec; they didn't want to allow us to have him exhumed. The officials were asking fifty thousand crowns to issue the permit, and I didn't have even five thousand, much less fifty thousand. So my brother and I said to each other: ?We were both partisans, so our father will remain in the mountains.?
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