Jewish Refugees from Galicia and Bukovina in East Bohemia during World War I in Light of the Documents of the State Administration
Jewish Refugees from Galicia and Bukovina in East Bohemia during World War I in Light of the Documents of the State Administration

Summary/Abstract: (transl. K. Millerová, S. M. Miller) During World War I, fighting on the Eastern Front triggered an extreme migration of the civilian population. Already in the first week of the war, the Galician and Bukovinian Jews living in the areas of this front were among those civilians who had to abandon their homes and flee into the inland of the Habsburg Monarchy. Jewish refugees in Cisleithania were placed in Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Lower Austria and Styria. The aim of the following study is, on the basis of research into the archival sources, in particular the documents of the state administration, to map the care of the Austro-Hungarian state for the Jewish refugees from Galicia and Bukovina, who were placed in East Bohemia for the time of the First World War. During my study, I have focused on the individual aspects of state welfare, such as the provision of state maintenance subsidies, lodging of the refugees, their medical care, the schooling of their children, employment of the refugees, care for problematic refugees, etc. In the literature, the topic of Jewish refugees from Galicia and Bukovina, who packed the inland of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy during World War I, has only been dealt with in few historical works so far. The wartime refugees without being distinguished by their religious creed were investigated by Walter Mentzel, who focused on their stay in the area of the whole of Cisleithania. The topic of Jewish refugees was further treated by Klaus Hödl, the stay of the refugees from Galicia and Bukovina in Vienna was written upon by Beatrix Hoffmann-Holter, the stay of the Jewish refugees in Graz by Edgar Perko.

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