The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia : facing the Holocaust / Livia Rothkirchen

Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.C95 R68 2005

Series: The comprehensive history of the Holocaust
Comprehensive history of the Holocaust.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Rothkirchen, Livia.
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press ; Jerusalem : Yad Vashem, c2005
Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-420) and index
Language: English
External Link: Table of contents

Physical Description: xvi, 447 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Prologue : Prague and Jerusalem : spiritual ties between Czechs and Jews
The historical setting
Years of challenge and growth : the Jewish minority in Czechoslovakia (1918-38)
The aftermath of Munich : the crisis of the intellectuals
Under German occupation (1939-45)
The protectorate governments and the "Final Solution"
The Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London : attitudes and reactions to the Jewish plight
Jews in the Czech home resistance
The "righteous" and the brave : compassion and solidarity with the persecuted
Gateway to death : the unique character of Ghetto Terezín (Theresienstadt)
The spiritual legacy of the Terezín inmates
Epilogue : between 1945 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
ISBN: 0803239521
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-420) and index.
Subjects: Jews--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
Jews--Czech Republic--Bohemia--History--20th century.
Jews--Czech Republic--Moravia--History--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czech Republic--Bohemia.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czech Republic--Moravia.
Czechoslovakia--Ethnic relations.
Bohemia (Czech Republic)--Ethnic relations.
Moravia (Czech Republic)--Ethnic relations.
Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
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