Czechoslovakia

Background Readings

• History of Jews in Czechoslovakia
• Sub-Carpathian Rus between the Wars
• USHMM History of the Holocaust in Sub-Carpathian Rus

Websites Relating Directly to Sol Rosner’s Experience

• Munich Conference
• Secret Memorandum regarding Sudeten-German demands
• Hungary
• Map of Pre-War Jewish communities showing Carpathian Ruthenia
• Hungarian Labor Service To which Sol’s brother Herschel is drafted
• KZ Mauthausen USHMM
• (note: Film of liberation is not Mauthausen but KZ Gusen)
• KZ Melk Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance Learning Center

Primary Documents

• Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye
• 10 September 1919 See Section III Article 53 (Australian Treaty Series)
• Treaty of Trianon
• 4 June 1920 See Section IV, Article 48

Yale University Avalon Project

• Munich Pact: Concluded at Munich, September 29, 1938, between Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy
• Seizure of Czechoslovakia: Judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Trial of German Major War Criminals
• Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry: Report to the United States Government and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom Lausanne, Switzerland, April 20, 1946

From the French Yellow Book (Avalon Project)

Diplomatic records from the Munich Agreement to September 3, 1939

• Item No. 65: M. Coulondre, French Ambassador in Berlin, to M. Georges Bonnet, Minister for Foreign Affairs. Berlin, March 14, 1939 one the occupation of “Sub-Carpathian Russia” by Hungary
• Item No. 66: M. Coulondre, French Ambassador in Berlin, to M. Georges Bonnet, Minister for Foreign Affairs. Berlin, March 14, 1939. Hungarian government demands withdrawal of Czech forces for “Sub-Carpathian Russia.” Czech forces accused by Germany of crimes against ethnic Germans. Speculation about Hitler’s intentions for the Slovakia, Czech and Sub-Carpathian Russia.
• Item No. 73: M. Coulondre, French Ambassador in Berlin, to M. Georges Bonnet, Minister for Foreign Affairs. Berlin, March 16, 1939. Reports that on March 12, Sub-Carpathian Russia had Proclaimed Independence. When Hungarians invaded, they tried to become part of Romania, and ask M. Coulondre to represent it to the Hungarians, German troops 200,000 massing on Moravian and Bohemian border according to reports of March 11 and 12rh
• Item No. 80: M. Coulondre, French Ambassador in Berlin, to M. Georges Bonnet, Minister for Foreign Affairs. Berlin, March 19, 1939. Discusses occupation former Czechoslovakia and speculates as to Hitler’s ambitions to occupy either Eastern or Western Europe in the near future.