Nazi Restrictions on the Jews of Prague & The Role of the Jewish Community Council 

[Guest publication by Holocaust Survivor Frank "Brichta" Bright]

The rules, orders, prohibitions and restrictions with which the Jewish population had to comply are shown in the sequence shown on the original pages, i.e. they are not always in chronological order.

The following represents only a small fraction of the total number of prohibitions, restrictions, confiscations and humiliations Jews had to endure before their deportation to the Final Solution.

Dates are shown in the order: day, month, year. Words are shown in bold lettering where they are thus shown in the original German text.

The Jewish Community in Prague

Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Development of the Jewish population in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is marked by a steady reduction in numbers between 15 March 1939 (the start of the occupation) and 15 June 1942 (the final date to which the statistics refer).

By the end of July 1943 all Jews, save those in mixed marriages, had been transported to the East or to the ghetto of Theresienstadt and to the East from there.

Read the full article here:
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/restrictions&roles.html

The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team

www.HolocaustResearchProject.org