Title The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia : facing the Holocaust / Livia Rothkirchen

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press ; Jerusalem : Yad Vashem, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) Series The comprehensive history of the Holocaust Comprehensive history of the Holocaust. 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Jews -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- 20th century Jews -- Czech Republic -- Bohemia -- History -- 20th century Jews -- Czech Republic -- Moravia -- History -- 20th century Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czech Republic -- Bohemia Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czech Republic -- Moravia HISTORY -- Holocaust. Ethnic relations Jews Joden. Etnische betrekkingen. Holocaust. SUBJECT Czechoslovakia -- Ethnic relations Bohemia (Czech Republic) -- Ethnic relations Moravia (Czech Republic) -- Ethnic relations Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85035316 Subject Czech Republic -- Bohemia Czech Republic -- Moravia Czechoslovakia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0803205023 9780803205024 1280423757 9781280423758 9786610423750 661042375X

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