Second World War
Then the fatal year 1939 came bringing the worst moments to the lives of Josefov’s inhabitants. Jews had never faced to such a horrible evil as in those years of the German occupation. Nobody before had tyrannized Jews so much; nobody murdered them in thousands. The hate against Jews had always been in some specific limits; it did not cross them, but the monstrosities and terror started by the Germans - it definitely lost any control and humanity! Jews were expelled from community and social life, they had to yield to strict and degrading commands and they had to bear a yellow star on the clothes as a means of differentiation from the rest of inhabitants. Jews had suffered from their faith, they died for their god. Those who survived all the war suffering leaved to the Western Europe, America, or Israel.

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