Czechoslovakia’s Crucial Role in the Birth of Israel 1

Jewish History | by Merv Islip | Volume 25, Issue 4 | July - August 2019

Following World War II, Jan Masaryk (1886–1948), Czechoslovakia’s foreign minister, provided help to Holocaust survivors. He worked with Gaynor Jacobson, the Prague repre-sentative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC), to provide support for Haganah operations to smuggle J...