THE REFUGEE CAMP FOR JEWS FROM GALICIA AND BUKOVINA IN NEMECKY BROD IN 1916/1917 (Uprchlicky tabor pro Zidy z Halice a Bukoviny v Nemeckem Brode v letech 1916/1917)

• Authors: Habartova Klara
• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article reports on the year that Jews from Galicia and Bukovina spent living in a refugee camp in the town of Nemecky Brod (today Havlickuv Brod). Refugees forced to leave their homes during the First World War owing to fighting on the Eastern front were provided with complete care under the supervision of the State Encampment Administration. They were provided with mass accommodation in wooden buildings and given food, clothing, and medical care. Two kindergartens and one school were built for the children of the refugees. The refugees worked in one of the two shoe factories or in the camp's technical facilities. The highest number of refugees residing in the camp at one time, most of whom were elderly people, women, and children, was 9684 people, which almost filled the camp's total capacity to accommodate ten thousand people. The high mortality rate (624 deaths) among refugees resulted mainly from epidemics of measles, scarlet fever, and typhoid fever. The last Jewish refugees left the camp in Nemecky Brod at the beginning of September 1917.

Keywords

EN

HISTORY; REFUGEE CAMP; WORLD WAR I

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historická demografie (Historical Demography)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 32
• Pages: 127-150
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Habartova Klara

• Klara Habartova, Filozoficka fakulta Univerzity Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA06434