Czech Medical Chamber to issue official apology for anti-Semitic decree

The Czech Medical Chamber is preparing an official apology for its participation in creating an order to ban Jews from working in medical professions. The order was enforced in 1938. The chamber’s board will discuss the apology on Thursday and the president of the Czech Medical Chamber Milan Kubík said that he feels confident it will be approved. The Czech Bar Association, which had also ordered that Jews be banned from legal professions, already issued an official apology last year. The order was published a mere two days after the Munich agreement and was instrumental in marginalizing the Czech Jewish population and stripping it of its democratic freedoms.