The Last Chapter? Leo Herrmann and the Czech Transfer (1938–1939)

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Last Chapter? Leo Herrmann and the Czech Transfer (1938–1939)
Original language description
This chapter analyzes the attempts to rescue 2,500 Czech Jews by means of a ha‘avara scheme, which was negotiated by Bar Kochba alumnus, Leo Herrmann. Born in Lanškroun in 1888, Herrmann was truly a renaissance personality – lawyer, Zionist activist, journalist, editor in-chief, film producer and longtime secretary general of the Keren Ha-Yesod. Using his unique skills in fundraising and crisis management as well as his excellent contacts within the Czechoslovak government-in-exile, Herrmann designed a scheme that allowed the rescue of thousands of Czechoslovak Jews, including notable Zionists such as Max Brod, Felix Weltsch or David Paul Meretz, often in the last possible moments. The following chapter describes the rescue effort in closer detail, using primary and secondary sources in Czech, German and Hebrew.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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