“Every Jew is a Zionist, and every Zionist is a spy!” The story of Jewish social assistance networks in Communist Czechoslovakia
Journal: East European Jewish Affairs
Year: 2014

AbstractThis article explores some of the major operations of the Czechoslovak secret police (State Security Forces, StB) against individuals involved in organising Jewish social assistance networks during the 1950s, as documented by fragments of case files preserved in the Security Services Archive in Prague. While there is much focus on victims of the Prague show trial of the so-called "Conspiracy Centre," all of whom were members of the top echelons of the Communist Party, the individuals who