Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia - Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Wolf Gruner, Gruner Wolf
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781800736467
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-646-7
• No. of pages: 454
• Series: War and Genocide
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, Germany, HISTORY / Jewish, Second World War, The Holocaust, Former Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust