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More than a few readers of European history have recalled that in 1938 big powers sold out Ukraine’s neighbor Czechoslovakia in an attempt to rein in German dictator Adolf ... Hitler broke his word ...

Trude Silman describes her experience as a young Jewish girl living in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, and escaping to Britain in 1939. When her home town of Bratislava was invaded by the Nazis ...

where some 1,300 Czech Roma were sent between August 1942 and August 1943 during the Nazi occupation of what was then Czechoslovakia in World War II. At least 335 people died there, according to ...

Trude Silman: Well the Nazi occupation as such is difficult to define, because the Nazis only managed to enter Czechoslovakia two weeks before I left. Although from ‘33 onwards, we were aware of ...