Declared Nationality of Jews in Czechoslovakia[4]: 355 For the Czechs of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia, German occupation was a period of brutal oppression.
About a quarter of the inmates (33,000) died in Theresienstadt, mostly because of the deadly conditions (hunger, stress, and disease, especially the typhus epidemic at the very end of war).
[6] The communist party was ambivalent in mentioning that the majority of Czechoslovakians who were victims of the fascists were in fact of Jewish origin and the government undertook a de-Judaization of school textbooks.
[6] In 2011 the Czech National Archives digitized all volumes of the Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths of Jewish communities (1784-1949), except those needing substantial preservation and restoration.
The restriction does not apply to the Jewish control registers owing to the time range of entries.