Miroslav Kárný (9 September 1919 – 9 May 2001) was a historian and writer from
Prague,
Czechoslovakia.[1]
Early life and education
Kárný was born into an assimilated Jewish family. His mother ran a shop selling candy and haberdashery and his father was a tradesman. After graduating from the
gymnasium, Kárný studied history and
Czech language at the
Charles University of Prague from 1937 to 1939. During this time, he joined the students' communist organisation
Kostufra.[1]
With Jaroslava Milotova and Margita Karna: Deutsche Politik im „Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren“ unter Reinhard Heydrich 1941–1942. Eine Dokumentation.Metropol 1997,
ISBN3-926893-44-3
Theresienstädter Gedenkbuch – die Opfer der Judentransporte aus Deutschland nach Theresienstadt 1942 – 1945. Institut Theresienstädter Initiative. Edited by Miroslav Kárný in Kollaboration with Alexander Blodigová. Berlin, Metropol-Verlag 2000
ISBN80-200-0793-8. Edition Theresienstädter Initiative
Articles
"Zur Typologie des Theresienstädter Konzentrationslagers". In: Judaica Bohemiae. XVII Jg., Nr. 1, 1981, 3–14.
"Zur Statistik der jüdischen Bevölkerung im sog. Protektorat". In: Judaica Bohemiae. Nr. 2, Bd. XXII, 1986, 9–19.
"Das Schicksal der Theresienstädter Osttransporte im Sommer und Herbst 1942". In: Judaica Bohemiae. Nr. 2, Bd. XXIV, 1988, 83–97.
"'Heydrichiaden'. Widerstand und Terror im Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren". In: Loukia Droulia,
Hagen Fleischer (Hrsg.): Von Lidice bis Kalavryta. Widerstand und Besatzungsterror. Studien zur Repressalienpraxis im Zweiten Weltkrieg. (Nationalsozialistische Besatzungspolitik in Europa 1939–1945, Band 8). Berlin 1999,
ISBN3-932482-10-7.
^Berenbaum, Michael & Gutman, Yisrael (eds). (1998). Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Indiana University Press, p. xii.
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^Jiří Kárný was then working as a manager, closely with
Ludvík Frejka, one of the main defendants. Frejka was hanged; Jiří received a long sentence. See
"Miroslav Kárný (1919–2001)"Archived 5 July 2020 at the
Wayback Machine. By Raimund Kemper, p.6 (in German).