HIB0273 Persecution of the Jewish Population in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1939-1945

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Vladimír Černý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Libor Jan, Ph.D.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Hana Ambrožová
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 15:50–17:25 U25
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course will focus on the genocide of the Jewish population in the Czech lands in 1939-1945. Students will get a review of the holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia and experience in working with sources related with this topic.
Syllabus
  • 1) Introduction to the topic and the archive institutions keeping the sources related to the holocaust with the focus on the territory of Moravia.
  • 2) A brief history of the Jews in the Czech lands from the Middle Ages to the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  • 3) The Jews in the First Czechoslovak Republic; open manifestations of the racist persecution in the period of the so-called second republic.
  • 4) The establishment of the Protectorate and the introduction of the Nuremberg race laws.
  • 5) The "arization" of the Jewish property.
  • 6) The advancement of the discrimination measures and the activities of the Protectorate government in the anti-Jewish law-making.
  • 7) The formation of the ghetto Theresienstadt in connection with the so called "final solution of the Jewish problem".
  • 8) Exterminatory camps in the occupied territory od Poland; the transports of the Jews from Bohemia and Moravia.
  • 9) The comparison of the holocaust in the Protectorate and other countries occupied by the Nazi Germany.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • ADLER, Hans Günther. Terezín 1941-1945 : tvář nuceného společenství. 1. vyd. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2007, 315 s. ISBN 8073640244. info
  • Holocaust phenomenon. Edited by Vojtěch Blodig. [Praha]: s.n., 1999, 178 s. info
  • FRIESOVÁ, Jana Renée. Fortress of my youth : memoir of a Terezín survivor. Translated by Elinor Morrisby - Ladislav Rosendorf. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002, x, 190. ISBN 0299178102. info
  • KÁRNÝ, Miroslav and Anita FRANKOVÁ. Persekuce a vyhlazení Židů za 2. světové války (Obsaž.) : Židé : dějiny a kultura. info
  • KÁRNÝ, Miroslav. "Konečné řešení" : genocida českých židů v německé protektorátní politice. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1991, 182 s. ISBN 8020003894. info
  • KREJČOVÁ, Helena, Jana [historička] SVOBODOVÁ and Anna HYNDRÁKOVÁ. Židé v protektorátu : hlášení Židovské náboženské obce v roce 1942 : dokumenty : Die Juden im Protektoraten Böhmen und Mähren (Souběž.). Praha: Maxdorf, 1997, 491 s. ISBN 80-85800-82-9. info
  • KRYL, Miroslav. Osud vězňů terezínského ghetta : [v letech 1941-1944]. 1. vyd. Brno: Doplněk, 1999, 225 s. ISBN 8072390422. info
  • MANNHEIMER, Max. Vzpomínky : Terezín, Osvětim, Varšava, Dachau. München: Obrys/Kontur-PmD, 1986. info
  • Stín šoa nad Evropu :sborník přednášek z cyklu uvedeného ve Vzdělávacím a kulturním centru Židovského muzea v Praze v lednu 2000 až prosinci 2001. Edited by Miloš Pojar. Praha: Židovské muzeum, 2001, 315 s. ISBN 80-85608-48-0. info
  • Terezínská pamětní kniha : židovské oběti nacistických deportací z Čech a Moravy 1941-1945. Edited by Miroslav Kárný - Zdeněk Schindler - Jaroslava Milotová. 1. vyd. Praha: Melantrich, 1995, 1559 s. ISBN 8070232250. info
  • Židovská menšina za druhé republiky : sborník přednášek z cyklu ve Vzdělávacím a kulturním centru Židovského muzea v Praze v lednu až červnu 2007. Edited by Miloš Pojar - Blanka Soukupová - Marie Zahradníková. V Praze: Židovské muzeum, 2007, 183 s. ISBN 9788086889528. info
Teaching methods
The course is carried out in form of seminars, where students present and discuss their essays.
Assessment methods
The classification will evaluate attendance which will be proved by signatures on the attendance lists. In the framework of seminar sessions, students will also have to prepare seminar work based on archive materials (approx. 10 pages long).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2007, Spring 2010, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015.
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