Marie Šupíková

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Marie Šupíková
Born	Marie Doležalová (1932-08-22)22 August 1932 Lidice, Czechoslovakia
Died	22 March 2021(2021-03-22) (aged 88)
Nationality	Czechoslovak Czech

Doležalová testifies at the RuSHA trial

Marie Šupíková née Doležalová (22 August 1932 – 22 March 2021) was a Czechoslovak survivor of the Lidice massacre.^[1][2] After World War II, she testified, together with another Lidice child Maria Hafnová, during court proceedings in the RuSHA trial, one of the subsequent Nuremberg trials.^[3]

Biography[]

Šupíková was born to Alzbeta (Kaclova) Dolezalova, a homemaker, and Josef Dolezal, an ironworker. She was ten years old when German forces invaded her village of Lidice, destroyed all of the buildings and killed about 200 men, including her father.^[2][4] The women, including her mother, were sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp; the children, including Šupíková, were taken to a makeshift detention facility in Łódź, Poland.^[2] Most of the children were eventually sent to the gas chambers at the Chelmno extermination camp; however, Šupíková and six other children were selected for Germanization.^[2][5]

Šupíková was adopted by Alfred and Ilsa Schiller and renamed Ingeborg Schiller. She lived with the Schillers for three years until a Czech organization looking for lost children found her.^[2] She learned that her father and brother had been killed and her mother was dying. Her mother died of tuberculosis in 1946, and Šupíková moved in with an Aunt in Kladno northwest of Prague.^[2] Šupíková graduated from a nursing school in Ostrava.^[5]

In 1947, at the age of 15, Šupíková testified at the Nuremberg trials of members of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office.^[5]

In the 1950s she married Frantisek Supik and had a daughter, Ivana. In 1955 they moved to Lidice, which was being rebuilt. She held a number of administrative jobs, including secretary of Lidice's National Committee from 1970–1986.^[2][5] Šupíková died on 22 March 2021, aged 88.^[3][6]

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External links[]

• Memory of Nations: Marie Šupíková oral history