Sudeten

She was a Sudeten German, as it turned out: part of the sizable minority of Bohemian Germans in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia, which Adolf Hitler annexed to Germany in 1939.

Steinl, a Sudeten German, was recognized in 1979 as Righteous Among the Nations, Israel’s highest honor to those non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

The year before, a complacent Chamberlain had “saved the peace” at Munich, by forcing the Czechoslovak government to surrender the Sudeten territory to Germany.

Bahensky, a Sudeten German, was displaced as a young child from Czechoslovakia during World War Two.

The Unitarian leaders were shocked and outraged in late September of 1938 over the Munich Pact, in which the British and French formally ceded the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia to the Nazis.