Prague in the Shadow of the Swastika: A History of the German Occupation 1939 - 1945A richly illustrated album-style history of Prague under Nazi occupation. Ch. 5 (pp. 113-134), "The Prague Jews, " relates to the introduction of anti-Jewish laws and segregation of the Jews in 1939-41, resettlement of Czech Jews, deportations to Theresienstadt and to Poland, and destruction and looting of Jewish communal and private property. Describes, also, the Theresienstadt ghetto, a "show ghetto" aimed to deceive the world concerning the fate of the Jews. States that of 39,395 Jews deported from Prague to Theresienstadt, 31,709 perished. Of the 92,199 Jews who lived in Bohemia and Moravia in 1941, only 14,045 survived. |
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