Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. The Historical Setting; 2. Years of Challenge and Growth; 3. The Aftermath of Munich; 4. Under German Occupation; 5. The Protectorate Governments and the ''Final Solution''; 6. The Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile in London; 7. Jews in the Czech Home Resistance; 8. The ''Righteous'' and the Brave; 9. Gateway to Death; 10. The Spiritual Legacy of the TerezĂn Inmates; Epilogue; Conclusions; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
"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