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Jewish cemetery in Holešov, Moravia. Two Jews were killed in a pogrom in the town. After World War I and during the formation of Czechoslovakia, a wave of anti-Jewish rioting and violence was unleashed against Jews and their property, especially stores. [1] [2]
The Jewish population of Bohemia and Moravia (117,551 according to the 1930 census) was virtually annihilated. Many Jews emigrated after 1939; approximately 78,000 were killed. By 1945, some 14,000 Jews remained alive in the Czech lands. [ 5 ]
According to Stephen Norwood, the Slánský trial was the "clearest illustration yet of state-sponsored antisemitism in the Soviet bloc" and "a secularized version of the Spanish Inquisition's racialized antisemitism", because it insisted on that Jewish origin was an indelible defect which would pass to all descendents (similar to the guilt of ...
Anti-Jewish laws have been a common occurrence throughout Jewish history. Examples of such laws include special Jewish quotas , Jewish taxes and Jewish "disabilities" . Some were adopted in the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and exported to the European Axis powers and puppet states .
Anti-Jewish laws were passed in 1940 and 1941, depriving Jews of their property via Aryanization and redistributing it to Slovaks viewed by the regime as more deserving. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Slovak State organized the deportation of 58,000 of its own Jewish citizens to German-occupied Poland in 1942, which was carried out by the paramilitary Hlinka ...
Members of Czechoslovakia's parliament (the Federal Assembly), divided along national lines, barely cooperated enough to pass the law officially separating the two nations in late 1992. On 1 January 1993, the Czech Republic and Slovakia were simultaneously and peacefully established as independent states.
Czech-Jewish culture in the United States (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Jewish Czech history" ... Anti-Jewish violence in Czechoslovakia (1918–1920) ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Pages in category "Antisemitism in Czechoslovakia" ... Anti-Jewish violence in Central and Eastern Europe, 1944 ...