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The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia : facing the Holocaust /

Main Author: Rothkirchen, Livia.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : Jerusalem : University of Nebraska Press ; Yad Vashem, ©2005.
Series:The comprehensive history of the Holocaust
Subjects:
Jews > History > 20th century. > Czechoslovakia
Jews > History > 20th century. > Czech Republic > Bohemia
Jews > History > 20th century. > Czech Republic > Moravia
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Czechoslovakia.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Czech Republic > Bohemia.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Czech Republic
HISTORY > Holocaust.
Ethnic relations.
Jews.
Joden.
Etnische betrekkingen.
Czechoslovakia > Ethnic relations. > Moravia.
Bohemia (Czech Republic) > Ethnic relations.
Moravia (Czech Republic) > Ethnic relations.
Czechoslovakia > History > 1938-1945.
Czech Republic > Bohemia.
Czech Republic > Moravia.
Czechoslovakia.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : Prague and Jerusalem : spiritual ties between Czechs and Jews
  • The historical setting
  • Years of challenge and growth : the Jewish minority in Czechoslovakia (1918-38)
  • The aftermath of Munich : the crisis of the intellectuals
  • Under German occupation (1939-45)
  • The protectorate governments and the "Final Solution"
  • The Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London : attitudes and reactions to the Jewish plight
  • Jews in the Czech home resistance
  • The "righteous" and the brave : compassion and solidarity with the persecuted
  • Gateway to death : the unique character of Ghetto Terezæn (Theresienstadt)
  • The spiritual legacy of the Terezæn inmates
  • Epilogue : between 1945 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

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