The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia resulted in the deportation, dispossession, and murder of most of the pre–World War II population of Jews in the Czech lands that were annexed by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945. From the pre-war population of 118,310 some 30,000 Jews managed to emigrate. Most of the remaining Jews were deported to other Nazi-controlled territories, starting in October 1939 as part of the Nisko Plan. In October 1941, mass deportations of Protectorate Jews began. Beginning in November 1941, the transports departed for Theresienstadt Ghetto in the Protectorate which was a stopping-point before deportation to other ghettos, extermination camps, and other killing sites. About 80,000 Jews from Bohemia and Moravia were murdered in the Holocaust. After the war, many Jews faced obstacles in regaining their property and pressure to assimilate into the Czech majority. Most Jews emigrated; a few were deported as part of the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1825:

On the advice of John C. Calhoun, President James Monroe asked Congress to organize Indian Territory (map pictured) west of the Mississippi River, laying the groundwork for Indian removal in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_removal

1869:

Former members of the overthrown Tokugawa shogunate proclaimed Japan's second-largest island, Hokkaido, to be the independent Republic of Ezo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ezo

1945:

The Soviet Red Army liberated about 7,000 prisoners left behind by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp

2010:

Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the new president of Honduras, ending a constitutional crisis that had begun in 2009 when Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from office. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Honduran_constitutional_crisis

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

populicide: (archaic) The deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/populicide

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

"Thinking again?" the Duchess asked, with another dig of her sharp little chin. "I've a right to think," said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to feel a little worried. "Just about as much right," said the Duchess, "as pigs have to fly."   --Alice's Adventures in Wonderland https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland