Figure 1.--This photo post card was taken and mailed we think in the late 1920s or early 30s. Put the cursor on the image to see the message on the back. Hopefully some time we will be able to translate it.

About 350,000 Jews lived in Czechoslovakia before the NAZIs seized the country after the Allies signed the Munich Agreement with Hitler. About one-third lived in Bohemia and Moravia. Jews in Czechoslovakia had full civil rights, enjoyed the same civil rights and religous freedom as all other Czech citizens. We have few details about Jews in Czechoslvakia, but believe that they were highly assimilated. Note the Jewish boy on the dress page. Sudeten Jews were subjected to NAZI Germnlaws and regulations when after Munich Hitler seized the Sudetenland. Hitler subsequently seized Bohemia nd Moravia (March 1939). At this time Slovakia suceeded from Czechoslovakia and the country ceased to exist. The NAZIs set up the Protectirate of Bohemia nd Moravia. NAZI official von Neurath issued anti-Jewish decrees (June 21, 1939,). They were practically identical to the regulations in forcein the Reich itselelf. As in Germany the regulatins were designed to terminate all civil rights and confiscate asmuch Jewish oroperty as possible. The measures quickly succeeded in destroying the economic viability of Czech Jews. The NAZIs were chillingly effective in their efforts to destroy Czech Jews in the Holocaust. After the NAZI victory in Poland, launching World War II, deportations began to concentration camps set up in Poland (October 1939). The death camps were operational by mid-1942 and by October 1942, about 75 percent of Czechoslovakian Jews had been deported, most of who were murdered at Auschwitz.

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