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Jewish cemetery in Holešov, Moravia. Two Jews were killed in a pogrom in the town. 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.
The wearing of the star was the most vigorously enforced anti-Jewish law, and violators could be deported to a concentration camp. [80] Later in September, high-ranking SS functionary Reinhard Heydrich was appointed Reich Protector and deposed the Czech government under Eliáš, replacing him with the hardliner Krejči.
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] Approximately 144,000 Jews were sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp. Most inmates were Czech Jews.
Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938–48: Beyond Idealisation and Condemnation (2013) is a book by the Czech historian Jan Láníček which addresses relations between Czechs, Slovaks, and Jews from the Munich Agreement to the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état which installed a Communist government.
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During World War II, Czechoslovakia was divided into four different regions, each administered by a different authority: Sudetenland (Germany), Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Slovak State, and Carpathian Ruthenia and southern Slovakia (Hungary). As a result, the Holocaust unfolded differently in each of these areas:
An English translation by Alex Skinner, The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses was published by Berghahn Books in 2019, as part of the "War and Genocide" series. [2] A Czech translation was also published by Academia in 2019, [3] and a Hebrew translation is planned as of 2020. [4]
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 ...