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During World War II, Czechoslovakia was divided into four different regions, each administered by a different authority: Sudetenland (Germany), Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Slovak State, and Carpathian Ruthenia and southern Slovakia (Hungary).
Gate of No Return [], a memorial at Praha–Bubny railway station commemorating the deportation of tens of thousands Jews via the station. The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia resulted in the deportation, dispossession, and murder of most of the pre-World War II population of Jews in the Czech lands that were annexed by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945.
Hana Brady (1931–1944), Holocaust victim [100] Izrael Zachariah Deutsch, deaf memoirist [101] Salo Flohr (1908–1983), leading chess master of the early 20th century [102] Tomáš Galásek, football player; Petr Ginz (1928–1944), boy deported to the Terezín concentration camp during the Holocaust [103]
Terezín (Czech pronunciation: [ˈtɛrɛziːn] ⓘ; German: Theresienstadt) is a town in Litoměřice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,900 inhabitants. It is a former military fortress composed of the citadel and adjacent walled garrison town.
Arnošt Lustig (21 December 1926 – 26 February 2011), Czechoslovak and later Czech Jewish writer and novelist, the Holocaust is his lifelong theme, survived. Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019), Croatian-American film producer. [77] Edward Mosberg (1926-2022), Polish-American Holocaust survivor, educator, and philanthropist
[citation needed] The vast majority of Romani in the Czech Republic today descend from migrants from Slovakia who moved there within post-war Czechoslovakia. [citation needed] The Theresienstadt concentration camp was located in the Protectorate, near the border to the Reichsgau Sudetenland. It was designed to concentrate the Jewish population ...
The total number of prisons and camps of all kinds within the boundaries of the modern-day Czech Republic was 2,125 [1] Starting in 1940, Romanis were forbidden to travel. In 1942, the measures already in force in Germany were applied in the Protectorate as well and, as an immediate result, a few hundred people deemed "asocial" were deported to ...
The former Austrian provinces of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia that now comprise the modern Czech Republic had been the industrial heartland of the Austrian empire, where the majority of the arms for the Imperial Austrian Army were manufactured, most notably at the Škoda Works. One consequence of this legacy was that Czechoslovakia was the only ...