The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia
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The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia

Facing the Holocaust

  1. 464 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia

Facing the Holocaust

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Prologue
  5. 1. The Historical Setting
  6. 2. Years of Challenge and Growth
  7. 3. The Aftermath of Munich
  8. 4. Under German Occupation
  9. 5. The Protectorate Governments and the ‘‘Final Solution’’
  10. 6. The Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile in London
  11. 7. Jews in the Czech Home Resistance
  12. 8. The ‘‘Righteous’’ and the Brave
  13. 9. Gateway to Death
  14. 10. The Spiritual Legacy of the Terezín Inmates
  15. Epilogue
  16. Conclusions
  17. Abbreviations
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index