If our father had been healthy, we might not have appreciated the things that we have and that our parents provided for us
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Jozef Kubaško was born on November 30, 1954 in Murán to Július and Margita. He had four siblings. The witnesses father was a baker and later a miner. At the age of 33, he joined the Slovak National Uprising. At first he worked as a quartermaster, later he defended the entrances to the Železník mines. However, while clearing fallen trees, which the Germans wanted to use to prevent the advance of the Soviet army, he suffered an accident – he was injured by a planted mine. The injury accompanied Jozef’s father permanently, later he remained on a disability pension and thus the seven-member family had to be modest. Jozef started elementary school in 1960, he continued his studies in Brezno at the vocational school for Mostáreň Brezno. Within it, they produced, for example, MB 80 cranes, which were also used to build Petržalka, the so-called modern city. He worked in sawmills, textile factories, the Consumer Union, but also as a maintenance worker or miner. He and his wife Zuzana have two sons. In his native village, he also revived the local play – Muránská šlka, of which he was the director for twenty years.
