History of the Jews in Liechtenstein

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The Jewish community of Liechtenstein today is a population of 18 (out of a total population of 33,987).

Contents 1 World War II 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] World War II

According to a 2005 study, about 400 Jewish refugees fled the Nazis, and found safety in the neutral alpine principality during World War II. However, an unknown number were turned back.^[1]

Sandwiched between neutral Switzerland and Nazi-controlled Austria, Liechtenstein had little room to manouver. The principality allowed 144 Jews to become citizens “in return for high fees” during the Nazi era.

Liechtenstein fared better in the review than neighbouring Switzerland did in a similar study, but the report found fault with the principality’s royal family.

The family of Liechtenstein’s Prince Franz Josef II bought property and art objects taken from Jews in Austria and Czechoslovakia and rented Jewish inmates from a Nazi SS concentration camp near Vienna for forced labour on nearby royal estates, the study said.^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ The Jewish News Weekly, 22 April 2005, retrieved 10 Jan 2006
2. ^ The Jewish News Weekly, 22 April 2005, retrieved 10 Jan 2006

[edit] See also

History of the Jews in Switzerland

The Holocaust

Racial policy of Nazi Germany

[edit] External links

International Religious Freedom Report 2005: Liechtenstein