After the Holocaust
This country became a major destination for Jewish emigrants from Czechoslovakia after the Holocaust.
What is Israel (or Palestine before 1948)?
In 1948, Czechoslovakia supplied the new State of Israel with these.
What are weapons?
The Slánský trial took place in this city.
What is Prague?
This leader died in March 1953.
Who is Stalin?
Czechoslovakia broke diplomatic relations with this country after the Six-Day War.
What is Israel?
Only nine of this many prewar Czech Jewish communities were reestablished.
What is 153?
This Soviet leader turned against Israel when it became clear it would not become communist.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The trial occurred in November of this year.
What is 1952?
The 1953 Doctors’ Plot accused members of this profession, especially Jews, of conspiracy.
Who are doctors?
This street’s Jewish town hall became a meeting place for young Prague Jews in 1966.
What is Maisel Street?
Approximately this many Czech and Slovak Jews remained, less than a tenth of the prewar total.
What is 15,000–18,000?
The Soviet authorities condemned Zionism as this kind of nationalism.
What is bourgeois nationalism?
This many of the fourteen defendants were of Jewish origin.
What is eleven?
The state banned this religious practice in 1954, before reversing the ban.
What is ritual slaughter (for kosher meat)?
May Day marchers in 1968 carried Jewish stars and a banner with this message.
What is 'Let Israel live'?