The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia

Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses

Wolf Gruner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

454 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-646-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Wolf Gruner is the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where he is also the Founding Director of the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research (previously USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research). He is the author of eleven books, ten of them on the Holocaust, including Jewish Forced Labour under the Nazis (2006).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of 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: Tables

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	War and Genocide
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-80073-646-0 / 1800736460
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-646-7 / 9781800736467
Zustand	Neuware