Volume 3
German Reich and Protectorate September 1939–September 1941
This volume chronicles the situation of the Jews in the German Reich and in the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia between the start of the Second World War and September 1941. The German authorities used the start of the war on 1 September 1939 as an opportunity to intensify the campaign against the supposed enemies within – primarily the Jews. Thousands of Jews were expelled to Poland and France in initial deportations. Emigration or flight became virtually impossible.
In February 1941 a Jewish woman from Vienna feared for her parents: ‘We know now that there is no age limit, everyone is being sent away, little children, the very old, even sick people are taken from the hospital and transported somewhere, into uncertainty, into misery.’ The volume documents the increasing isolation of the German and Czech Jews and the plans and ambitions of their persecutors in the period leading up to the systematic deportations.
Documents
This volume contains more than 300 source documents about the persecution of the Jews in the German Reich and in the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia between 1939 and 1941.
Archives represented: 65
Maps: 2
Pages: 848
Maps
This professionally designed map details the specific geographical area in focus in this PMJ volume.
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Contributors
The efforts of many people went into producing this volume, which is based on its counterpart in the German VEJ series. The contributors are acknowledged here.
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