The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia : : Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses / / Wolf Gruner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Gruner, Wolf,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: War and Genocide ; 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (454 p.)

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.

Table of 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