The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia : Czech initiatives, German policies, Jewish responses / Wolf Gruner, Alex Skinner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gruner, Wolf, 1960- author.

Skinner, Alex, author.

Series:

War and genocide ; Volume 28.

War and genocide ; Volume 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--Czech Republic--Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate, 1939-1945)--History.

Antisemitism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (454 pages).

Edition:

English-language edition

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Berghahn, 2019.

Summary:

Prior to Hitler’s occupation, nearly 120,000 Jews inhabited the areas that would become the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; by 1945, all but a handful had either escaped or been deported and murdered by the Nazis. This pioneering study gives a definitive account of the Holocaust as it was carried out in the region, detailing the German and Czech policies, including previously overlooked measures such as small-town ghettoization and forced labor, that shaped Jewish life. Drawing on extensive new evidence, Wolf Gruner demonstrates how the persecution of the Jews as well as their reactions and resistance efforts were the result of complex actions by German authorities in Prague and Berlin as well as the Czech government and local authorities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Czechoslovak Republic and Its Minorities

Chapter 2 Annexation: Violence, Flight and Emigration Ban

Chapter 3 German Expulsion and Czech Persecution

Chapter 4 The War and Greater German Deportation Plans

Chapter 5 Reorientation, Ghettoization and Protest

Chapter 6 Local versus Central Persecutory Initiatives

Chapter 7 Isolation, Forced Labour and Opposition

Chapter 8 Repression, Deportation and Resistance

Chapter 9 Transports, Theft, Forced Labour and Flight

Chapter 10 Those Left Behind and the End of the War

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-752-5

1-78920-285-X

OCLC:

1090279692