Jewish Brno outside the city walls

Headquarters of the Emigration Fund

Here is a view of the house facing Štěpánská Street in early 1941.

The building was later converted into offices for the Brno offices of the Emigration Fund, a financial institution set up by the Nazis to confiscate all Jewish property.

Even in its name, the word "emigration" did not appear by chance. It was intended to help create the impression that deportation to death was actually emigration, resettlement elsewhere. After all, the vast office headed by Adolf Eichmann, responsible for the smooth execution of the mass murder of all Jews, was called the Central Office for Jewish Emigration.


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