Czech Republic
TitleCzech Republic
Author
Call number940.53180922/0099
Object number08285j
Place of publicationHamburg, Germany
Year of publication
2010
Physical descriptionpp53-56
MaterialArticle
Series titleNeuengammer Studienhefte ; 03
NotesArticle from the Proceedings of an international conference held at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, 5 to 7 May 2010 pp53-56
Description
By the end of World War II, the former Czechoslovakia was economically depleted and much of the country's Jewish and Roma population had been murdered. The Jews who returned home encountered hostility and many emigrated. In 1990, former Jewish prisoners of Theresienstadt formed the Terezin Initiative, an association of Shoah survivors in the Czech Republic, and in 1995 a monument was erected.