The Interaction of Jews and the Society of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: Attitudes, Forms and Dynamics
The Interaction of Jews and the Society of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: Attitudes, Forms and Dynamics
Author(s): Magda VeselskáSubject(s): History, Jewish studies, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Židovské Muzeum v Praze
Keywords: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; Jews; Nuremberg Race Laws; Volksdeutsche; Emil Hácha; Gestapo; RSHA; Repression; Aktion “Gitter”; Aktion Albrecht I; Martial Law; Denunciation;
Summary/Abstract: This study highlights the Protectorate public’s attitudes towards the persecution of the Jews as formulated in letters to the country’s president Emil Hácha and as demonstrated in actions. On the one hand, these were active intrusions into individual lives in the form of denunciations to the Gestapo and subsequent repression. On the other hand, there were forms of co-operation, such as helping to escape or to hide, and resistance activities against the common enemy – with the risk of everyone involved being punished. This study also draws attention to the pretexts for and methods of organized persecution of Jews before the mass deportations to concentration and extermination camps began in autumn 1941 (arrest actions in 1939, martial law in the autumn of 1941 and in the spring of 1942). As such, it combines chronological and thematic approaches.
Journal: Judaica Bohemiae
- Issue Year: LVIII/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 9-45
- Page Count: 37
- Language: English
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