Židé na Vitorazsku ve 2. polovině 19. a začátku 20. století
Jews in the Vitoraz region in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century

Author(s): Michal Morawetz
Subject(s): Jewish studies, Regional Geography, Ethnohistory, Recent History (1900 till today), 19th Century
Published by: Židovské Muzeum v Praze
Keywords: Vitoraz region; 19th century; 20th century; Jews;
Summary/Abstract: The border region of Vitoraz (Weitra) in South Bohemia, lying between Gmünd on the Austrian side and Suchdol nad Lužnicí (Suchenthal) on the Czech side, was annexed to Czechoslovakia in July 1920. There were Jewish families living in a few of the formerly Lower Austrian villages at that time. This paper presents information about individual Jewish families ascertained from sources that have been preserved in a fragmentary way or by chance. The focus is on the attitudes of the Jewish inhabitants at certain historical points in time, and on their fate in the 20th century. An awareness of the dispersed rural settlement in this area is now almost completely missing. References in the scholarly and regional literature to Jewish families in the Vitoraz region are still limited to the area of České Velenice (Gmünd) during the Second World War; moreover, they concern mostly Hungarian Jews who died in the Gmünd work camp at the turn of 1944 and 1945 and who were buried in the cemetery at České Velenice. The aim of this paper is to return to the history of the communities in Vitoraz the names of the Jewish families who belonged there.

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