Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
49,1 (2021) 155-169
Keywords:
Gruner, Wolf,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate, 1939-1945) Politics and government
Abstract:
The review essay analyzes the recently published book by the German American historian Wolf Gruner on the Holocaust in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The reviewer focuses on some of the main features of the book; namely, Gruner’s effort to analyze the grassroots’ developments of the persecution, including the involvement of the “Czech” Protectorate authorities, and the assessment of the Jewish communities’ responses to the persecution. Despite some reservations about the main conclusions and sources used in the book, the reviewer praises Gruner for the effort to challenge the simplified historical narrative that still dominates historiography on the Holocaust in the Protectorate, and which presents Czechs purely as victims and resisters. Gruner opens key questions related to the local Czech authorities’ contribution to the segregation and persecution of the Jews, a topic that needs to be at the center of future historians’ research into the Holocaust in the Protectorate.
Note:
In English and Hebrew.
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