Osudy československých Židů deportovaných z území Těšínského Slezska do Niska nad Sanem v říjnu 1939 ve světle dokumentů NKVD
The fate of Czechoslovak Jews deported from the territory of Těšín Silesia to Nisko in October 1939 in light of NKVD documents

Author(s): Jan Dvořák
Subject(s): Jewish studies, Ethnohistory, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Židovské Muzeum v Praze
Keywords: Czechoslovakia; Jews; 1939; NKVD; deportation; Těšín Silesia;
Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the circumstances under which Jews from the Czechoslovak part of Těšín (Cieszyn, Teschen) Silesia – deported by the Nazis to the town of Nisko on the San River in October 1939 – found themselves in the territory of the Soviet Union, where, with few exceptions, they were subjected to repression by the Soviet regime. It focuses on the specific fate of individual Jews in connection with their imprisonment, deportation, and forced labour in Soviet labour camps (Gulags), while also pointing to the possibilities and chances of survival in these inhuman conditions. The paper draws primarily on a study of former NKVD materials that have been preserved in Ukrainian state and security archives.

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