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Cecoslovacchia 1944 (19 marzo) - 1945 (9 maggio) CercaDefinizione
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When Germany begins its occupation of Hungary (March 19, 1944), the Jews of the Transcarpathian Ukraine (also Carpathian Ruthenia) are forced to pay heavy tributes to the Nazis. In some instances, members of the area's Christian community aid the Jews. The Nazis begin their destruction of Hungarian Jewry in the Transcarpathina Ukraine. The Hungarian police and gendarmerie aid the Germans by rounding up the Jews, forcing them into ghettos, and deporting them to the east. The Jews of the Transcarpathian Ukraine are sent into ghettos before the rest of Hungarian Jews. They leave for the ghettos on April 16, 1944, the first day of Passover and Nazis soon plunder the homes left empty. Only twenty percent of Transcarpathian Ukraine's Jews survive World War II. Most survivors leave the region when the Soviet Union annexes it.
Of the 6,795 Jews left in the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in at the end of 1944, over 4,000 are sent to Theresienstadt early in 1945. When the Allies complete the liberation of Czechoslovakia (May 1945), they find only 2,803 Jews in the former Protectorate. Over 77,000 of Czechoslovakia's Jews died in the Holocaust. (en-US)
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The Jews of Czechoslovakia: Historical Studies and Surveys. 3 volumes. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1968-1983. Vol. 3, pp. 3-74