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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.
This primarily entailed moving Jews from peripheral districts of Prague into older housing, already occupied by other Jews, in the center of the city, especially Josefov and the Old Town. [124] Thousands of Jews were evicted from flats around the city and most had to resettle in one-room sub-tenancies. [127]
During the Habsburg reign, however, the Jewish people were expelled twice - in 1542 and 1561, [3] the community strengthening on each return. From 1564 to 1612, the reigns of Maximilian II and Rudolf II were a 'golden age' for the Jews in Prague. By the early 1700s, the Jews accounted for about a quarter of Prague's population with more Jewish ...
Most Jews lived in large cities such as Prague (35,403 Jews, who made up 4.2% of the population), Brno (11,103, 4.2%), and Ostrava (6,865, 5.5%). [ 17 ] Antisemitism in the Czech lands was less prevalent than elsewhere, and was strongly opposed by the national founder and first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), [ 18 ] [ 19 ...
move to sidebar hide (Top) ... The Jewish People: Past and Present is a three-volume reference work on the Jewish diaspora, published between 1946 and 1952.
Mordecai Meisel, philanthropist and communal leader at Prague [77] Karol Sidon, playwright, chief rabbi of Prague, and Convert to Judaism; Salomon Weisz, cantor & Bar Mitzvah teacher in Znojmo and Trebic, cantor of Moravia and Bar Mitzvah teacher in Prague from 1946 to 1968.
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Although there were Jews from Germany and Austria in Theresienstadt at the time, all of the deportees in the 28 July transport had been arrested in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; [6] 51 percent in Prague and 48 percent in Olomouc. Most were between the age of 40 and 65. [7]