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Evening on 75th annivesary of First Transport of European Jews

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: October 24, 2014, 18:00 – 20:00

On 18 October 1939, the first transport of Jews in the history of the Holocaust was dispatched from Ostrava, organised by Adolf Eichmann. It was headed for Nisko. The deportees were forced to build a camp that was to be a destination for further transports.

However, the “Nisko Plan” was abandoned and the camp shut down. Some of the detainees returned home, some were murdered by the Nazis and some drifted into the USSR, where many ended up in the Gulag.

Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes staff have discovered hundreds of NKVD files on the victims of the Nisko transports in the Ukrainian archives. Mečislav Borák, Jan Dvořák and Adam Hradilek will present the newly discovered documents and outline the fates of the deportees.

The evening is being jointly held by the Václav Havel Library and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.

Photo (c) moderni-dejiny.cz

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