The Holocaust In Bohemia And Moravia

Author : Wolf Gruner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789202854

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The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia by Wolf Gruner Pdf

Prior to Hitler’s occupation, nearly 120,000 Jews inhabited the areas that would become the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; by 1945, all but a handful had either escaped or been deported and murdered by the Nazis. This pioneering study gives a definitive account of the Holocaust as it was carried out in the region, detailing the German and Czech policies, including previously overlooked measures such as small-town ghettoization and forced labor, that shaped Jewish life. Drawing on extensive new evidence, Wolf Gruner demonstrates how the persecution of the Jews as well as their reactions and resistance efforts were the result of complex actions by German authorities in Prague and Berlin as well as the Czech government and local authorities.

Author : Livia Rothkirchen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803205024

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The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia by Livia Rothkirchen Pdf

Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem “We were both small nations whose existence could never be taken for granted,” Vaclav Havel said of the Czechs and the Jews of Israel in 1990, and indeed, the complex and intimate link between the fortunes of these two peoples is unique in European history. This book, by one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of Czech and Slovak Jewry during the Nazi period, is the first to thoroughly document this singular relationship and to trace its impact, both practical and profound, on the fate of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust. Livia Rothkirchen provides a detailed and comprehensive history of how Nazi rule in the Czech lands was shaped as much by local culture and circumstances as by military policy. The extraordinary nature of the Czech Jews’ experience emerges clearly in chapters on the role of the Jewish minority in Czech life; the crises of the Munich agreement and the German occupation, the reaction of the local population to the persecution of the Jews, the policies of the London-based government in exile, the question of Jewish resistance, and the special case of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto. The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia is based on a wealth of primary documents, many uncovered only after the 1989 November Revolution. With an epilogue on the post-1945 period, this richly woven historical narrative supplies information essential to an understanding of the history of the Jews in Europe.

Author : Andrea Löw,Caroline Pearce
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110526363

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German Reich and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia September 1939–September 1941 by Andrea Löw,Caroline Pearce Pdf

This source edition on the persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany presents in a total of 16 volumes a thematically comprehensive selection of documents on the Holocaust. The work illustrates the contemporary contexts, the dynamics, and the intermediate stages of the political and social processes that led to this unprecedented mass crime. It can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and all other interested parties. The edition comprises authentic testimony by persecutors, victims, and onlookers. These testimonies are furnished with academic annotations and the vast majority of them are published here for the first time in English. Volume 3 documents the persecution of the Jews in the German Reich after the start of the Second World War and in the ‘Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’, created in March 1939, until September 1941. It reveals the increasing isolation of the German and Czechoslovak Jews but also the perpetrators’ plans up to the eve of systematic deportations.

Author : Tomas Sniegon
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782382959

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Vanished History by Tomas Sniegon Pdf

Bohemia and Moravia, today part of the Czech Republic, was the first territory with a majority of non-German speakers occupied by Hitler's Third Reich on the eve of the World War II. Tens of thousands of Jewish inhabitants in the so called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia soon felt the tragic consequences of Nazi racial politics. Not all Czechs, however, remained passive bystanders during the genocide. After the destruction of Czechoslovakia in 1938-39, Slovakia became a formally independent but fully subordinate satellite of Germany. Despite the fact it was not occupied until 1944, Slovakia paid Germany to deport its own Jewish citizens to extermination camps. About 270,000 out of the 360,000 Czech and Slovak casualties of World War II were victims of the Holocaust. Despite these statistics, the Holocaust vanished almost entirely from post-war Czechoslovak, and later Czech and Slovak, historical cultures. The communist dictatorship carried the main responsibility for this disappearance, yet the situation has not changed much since the fall of the communist regime. The main questions of this study are how and why the Holocaust was excluded from the Czech and Slovak history.

Author : Thomas Pegelow Kaplan,Wolf Gruner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789207217

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Resisting Persecution by Thomas Pegelow Kaplan,Wolf Gruner Pdf

Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure favors or protection. Such petitioning took on particular significance in modern dictatorships, often as the only tool left for voicing political opposition. During the Holocaust, tens of thousands of European Jews turned to individual and collective petitions in the face of state-sponsored violence. This volume offers the first extensive analysis of petitions authored by Jews in nations ruled by the Nazis and their allies. It demonstrates their underappreciated value as a historical source and reveals the many attempts of European Jews to resist intensifying persecution and actively struggle for survival.

Author : Natalia Berger
Publisher : Ministry of Defence Publishing House
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018891864

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Where Cultures Meet by Natalia Berger Pdf

Author : Jiří Fiedler
Publisher : Prague : Sefer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029864074

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Jewish Sights of Bohemia and Moravia by Jiří Fiedler Pdf

A guide to Jewish historical sites in the Czech Republic, arranged alphabetically by locality. Details the history of each community, including pogroms and expulsions, the fate of the community in the Holocaust, and concentration and labor camps in the vicinity. The introduction by Pařík, "From the History of the Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia" (pp. 5-26), describes periods of relative freedom and prosperity alternating with restrictions, pogroms, and expulsions - until the destruction of the community in the Holocaust.

Author : Michal Šimůnek,Antonín Kostlán
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 8074650413

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Disappeared Science by Michal Šimůnek,Antonín Kostlán Pdf

Author : Wolf Gruner,Jörg Osterloh
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782384441

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The Greater German Reich and the Jews by Wolf Gruner,Jörg Osterloh Pdf

Between 1935 and 1940, the Nazis incorporated large portions of Europe into the German Reich. The contributors to this volume analyze the evolving anti-Jewish policies in the annexed territories and their impact on the Jewish population, as well as the attitudes and actions of non-Jews, Germans, and indigenous populations. They demonstrate that diverse anti-Jewish policies developed in the different territories, which in turn affected practices in other regions and even influenced Berlin’s decisions. Having these systematic studies together in one volume enables a comparison - based on the most recent research - between anti-Jewish policies in the areas annexed by the Nazi state. The results of this prizewinning book call into question the common assumption that one central plan for persecution extended across Nazi-occupied Europe, shifting the focus onto differing regional German initiatives and illuminating the cooperation of indigenous institutions.

Author : Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN : UOM:39015014754967

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The Jews of Czechoslovakia by Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Europe
ISBN : UOM:39015072470001

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Yad Vashem Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hillel J. Kieval
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812253115

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Prague and Beyond by Hillel J. Kieval Pdf

"A comprehensive history of the Jews of the Bohemian Lands whose goal is to narrate and analyze the Jewish experience in the Bohemian Lands as an integral and inseparable part of the development of Central Europe and its peoples from the sixteenth century to the present day"--

Author : Marie Bader
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786726230

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Life and Love in Nazi Prague by Marie Bader Pdf

Prague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience increasing levels of persecution, as rumours start to swirl of deportation and an unknown, but widely feared, fate. Amidst the chaos and devastation, Marie Bader, a widow age 56, has found love again with a widower, her cousin Ernst Löwy. Ernst has fled to Greece and the two correspond in a series of deeply heartfelt letters which provide a unique perspective on this period of heightening tension and anguish for the Jewish community. The letters paint a vivid, moving and often dramatic picture of Jewish life in occupied Prague, the way Nazi persecution affected Marie, her increasingly strained family relationships, as well as the effect on the wider Jewish community whilst Heydrich, one of the key architects and executioners of the Holocaust and Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, established the Theresienstadt ghetto and began to organize the deportation of Jews. Through this deeply personal and moving account, the realities of Jewish life in Heydrich's Prague are dramatically revealed.

Author : Ari Kohen,Gerald J. Steinacher
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496208927

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Unlikely Heroes by Ari Kohen,Gerald J. Steinacher Pdf

Classes and books on the Holocaust often center on the experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, but rescuers also occupy a prominent space in Holocaust courses and literature even though incidents of rescue were relatively few and rescuers constituted less than 1 percent of the population in Nazi-occupied Europe. As inspiring figures and role models, rescuers challenge us to consider how we would act if we found ourselves in similarly perilous situations of grave moral import. Their stories speak to us and move us. Yet this was not always the case. Seventy years ago these brave men and women, today regarded as the Righteous Among the Nations, went largely unrecognized; indeed, sometimes they were even singled out for abuse from their co-nationals for their selfless actions. Unlikely Heroes traces the evolution of the humanitarian hero, looking at the ways in which historians, politicians, and filmmakers have treated individual rescuers like Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler, as well as the rescue efforts of humanitarian organizations. Contributors in this edited collection also explore classroom possibilities for dealing with the role of rescuers, at both the university and the secondary level.

Author : Chad Bryant
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674261662

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Prague in Black by Chad Bryant Pdf

In September 1938, the Munich Agreement delivered the Sudetenland to Germany. Six months later, Hitler’s troops marched unopposed into Prague and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia—the first non-German territory to be occupied by Nazi Germany. Although Czechs outnumbered Germans thirty to one, Nazi leaders were determined to make the region entirely German. Chad Bryant explores the origins and implementation of these plans as part of a wider history of Nazi rule and its consequences for the region. To make the Protectorate German, half the Czech population (and all Jews) would be expelled or killed, with the other half assimilated into a German national community with the correct racial and cultural composition. With the arrival of Reinhard Heydrich, Germanization measures accelerated. People faced mounting pressure from all sides. The Nazis required their subjects to act (and speak) German, while Czech patriots, and exiled leaders, pressed their countrymen to act as “good Czechs.” By destroying democratic institutions, harnessing the economy, redefining citizenship, murdering the Jews, and creating a climate of terror, the Nazi occupation set the stage for the postwar expulsion of Czechoslovakia’s three million Germans and for the Communists’ rise to power in 1948. The region, Bryant shows, became entirely Czech, but not before Nazi rulers and their postwar successors had changed forever what it meant to be Czech, or German.