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Furniture confiscated from deported Jews in a synagogue, 1944
Furniture confiscated from deported Jews in a synagogue, 1944

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. Before the Holocaust, the Jews of Bohemia were among the most integrated Jewish communities in Europe. In March 1939, Germany invaded and annexed Czech lands as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Anti-Jewish measures followed. Jews were evicted and concentrated into substandard housing. In October 1941, mass deportations began; from November, transports departed for Theresienstadt Ghetto, a temporary stop in the Protectorate before deportation to ghettos and extermination camps farther east. About 80,000 Jews from Bohemia and Moravia were murdered. After the war, Jews faced pressure to assimilate into the Czech majority. The memory of the Holocaust was suppressed in Communist Czechoslovakia, but resurfaced in public discourse after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. (Full article...)

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