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A military parade in Bratislava. Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, May 3, 1940. [LCID: 80654]
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Czechoslovakia

The interwar democracy of Czechoslovakia was an early victim of Nazi Germany’s territorial expansion. The 1938 Munich Pact allowed Nazi Germany to annex the Sudetenland, a border area of Czechoslovakia with a majority ethnic German population. Over the following months, Czechoslovakia was repeatedly partitioned before the Germans invaded in March 1939 and the Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1939) ceased to exist. Explore more content related to Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust, the victims that lived there, and the resistance that ensued. 

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A stylized black and white illustration of a violin and sheet music wrapped in barbed wire behind prison bars looking out. A few buildings and a bright sky can be seen out the prison window.
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1943 still life of a violin and sheet of music behind prison bars by Bedrich Fritta
A photographer with a group of nomadic Roma (Gypsies). [LCID: 60144]
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A photographer with a group of nomadic Roma (Gypsies)
Adolf Hitler reviews his troops at Prague castle on the day of the occupation. [LCID: 80577]
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Adolf Hitler reviews German troops in Prague
Aftermath of pogrom in Kielce [LCID: dfk0389p]
Film
Aftermath of pogrom in Kielce
Agreement Reached at Munich Conference [LCID: dfm0308p]
Film
Agreement Reached at Munich Conference
Alfred (Fredl) Krakauer [LCID: 6654]
ID Card
Alfred (Fredl) Krakauer
Alice and Heinrich Muller pose for a photograph while in costume for the Purim holiday. [LCID: 14849]
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Alice and Heinrich Muller in costume for Purim
Alice (Eberstarkova) Masters [LCID: amk0860f]
Oral History
Alice (Eberstarkova) Masters describes leaving Czechoslovakia on a Kindertransport (Children's Transport)
A paper tag with two holes punched in the top. A piece of string is looped through the right hole. Large numbers ‘395’ are printed on the right, with a box labeled ‘transport’ on the left. The bottom has a space for a name. ‘Winternitz, Alice’ is handwritten in faded ink.
Artifact
Alice (Lisl) Winternitz's luggage tag
Reinhard Heydrich (left), Nazi governor of Bohemia and Moravia, with Karl Hermann Frank, his deputy. [LCID: 76579]
Timeline Event
Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
The damaged car of SS General Reinhard Heydrich after an attack by Czech agents working for the British. [LCID: 77944]
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Attempt to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich
Bernard Krakauer [LCID: 6678]
ID Card
Bernard Krakauer
Wooden bellows in the shape of a tear drop. Two stripes of dark orange fabric wrap around the bellow near the intake nozzle.
Artifact
Blacksmith's bellows used in a Romani (Gypsy) encampment
The bodies of SS General Reinhard Heydrich's assassins and five other operatives were displayed in front of the Carlo Boromeo Church (now the St. Cyril and Methodius Church).
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Bodies of Czech resistance fighters in front of the Carlo Boromeo Church
Bohemia and Moravia 1942, Theresienstadt indicated [LCID: the74020]
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Bohemia and Moravia 1942, Theresienstadt indicated
Book peddler in Munkács [LCID: dfm1007b]
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Book peddler in Munkács

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