[Cz-L] Jewish WWI refugees in Bohemia

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Hi all.

To my total surprise (after Shemini Atzeret yizkor today, of all times),
I came across this.

To be sure, by that time (already 1913), my father's family had left the
Bukovina and moved to Galicia (the other relatives stayed in Bukovina),
but it is still part of the general picture of the fate of the
Bukovinian Jews under the Habsburg Empire.

Jim

    A groundbreaking new exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Prague uses
    testimony from the Visual History Archive to explore the
    little-known fates of Jewish refugees in Bohemia and Moravia during
    World War I.

    The exhibit, titled "The Orient in Bohemia? Jewish Refugees During
    the First World War," will be on display at the Jewish Museum in
    Prague <http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/aorient_v_cechach.htm> until
    February 2015. 2014 marks the centennial anniversary of the
    beginning of World War I.

    Included in the exhibit is USC Shoah Foundation testimony of Jewish
    Holocaust survivors Jir(ם Nezval and Max Wald -- the only
    audiovisual testimonies of these particular World War I refugees
    that researchers could find in the world. Wald and Nezval describe
    their families' experiences in Bohemia as refugees.

    The exhibit focuses on the first large group of refugees in modern
    history to arrive in the Bohemia region of Czechoslovakia. Hundreds
    of thousands of people fled or were evacuated from their homes in
    the World War I frontlines and arrived in the inner regions of the
    Habsburg monarchy, where they faced anti-Semitic campaigns and loss
    of rights.

    Through never-before-seen photographs, "The Orient in Bohemia?"
    illustrates the life of these refugees and refugee camps as well as
    the fascination locals had for Eastern European Jews and their
    different lifestyles and culture. Narrated excerpts from newspapers
    and other documents reveal the racial prejudices of the time and how
    the local population dealt with the refugees.

http://sfi.usc.edu/news/2014/09/6356-testimony-featured-%93-orient-bohemia%94-exhibit-jewish-museum-prague
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