Title page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Czech and Slovak historical narratives; Chapter 2 The Holocaust in Czechoslovak historical culture before 1989; Chapter 3 The Holocaust's uneven return; Chapter 4 Schindler's List arrives in Schindler's homeland; Chapter 5 Pig farm as a Porrajmos remembrance site; Chapter 6 The Slovak war history goes to Europe; Chapter 7 The Holocaust -- lacking historical cultures in Slovakia and the Czech Republic; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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
