Jews in Breznice (with emphasis on religious element and issue of coexistence with mainstream society)

This bachelor thesis focuses on the history of Jews before ghettoisation as well as after it until the period of Shoah (Holocaust), in the town of Breznice (Breznitz) located now in Stredocesky district of Czechia. The focus moves from the short summary of the history of Breznice (chap. 1) to chronologicaly organised events from the lives of Jewish inhabitants of this town. Next chapters deal with architectonical sites (chap. 3), imprortant professions (chap. 4) and selected Jewish figures of Breznice (kap. 5). Scholarly monographs, articles and unpublished material as well as documents from the archive of Jewish Museum of Prague have been used for this thesis