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hid their identity due to antisemitism in the partisan movement. Anti-Jewish legislation in the liberated areas was canceled by the Slovak National Council, but the attitude of the local population varied: some risked their lives to hide Jews, and others turned them in to the police. Unlike in 1942, the death penalty was in effect for rescuers; the majority provided help for a fee, although there were also cases of selfless rescues. Many Jews spent six to eight months in makeshift shelters or bunkers in the mountains, while others hid in the houses of non-Jews. Regardless, Jews required money for six to eight months of living expenses and the help of non-Jews willing to provide assistance. Some of the Jews in shelters had to return home later in the winter, risking capture, because of the hunger and cold. Living openly and continuing to work under false papers was typically only possible in Bratislava.

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enterprises, and Aryanization was applied to larger Jewish-owned companies which were acquired by competitors. In many cases, Aryanizers inexpert in business struck deals with former Jewish owners and employees so the Jews would keep working for the company. The Aryanization of businesses did not bring the anticipated revenue into the Slovak treasury, and only 288 of the liquidated businesses produced income for the state by July 1942. The Aryanization and liquidation of businesses was nearly complete by January 1942, resulting in 64,000 of 89,000 Jews losing their means of support. Manufactured Jewish impoverishment was a pressing social problem for the Slovak government until unemployed Jews were deported in 1942.

1669: 1411: 1512:, Einsatzkommando 13 and collaborators arrested hundreds of Jews over the night of 13/14 September. The victims were deported to Sereď or Ilava and thence to Auschwitz, where most were murdered. Einsatzgruppe H reported that some Jews were able to escape because of insufficient personnel, but that both Germans and Slovaks generally supported the roundups and helped track down evaders. After the defeat of the uprising, the German forces also hunted the Jews hiding in the mountains. Although most victims were arrested during the first two months of occupation, the hunt for the Jews continued until 30 March 1945, when a Jewish prisoner was taken to Sereď just three days before the camp was liberated. 875:, antisemitic laws initially defined Jews by religion rather than ancestry; Jews who were baptized before 1918 were considered Christian. By September 1940, Jews were banned from secondary and higher education and from all non-Jewish schools, and forbidden from owning motor vehicles, sports equipment, or radios. Local authorities had imposed anti-Jewish measures on their own; the head of the Šariš-Zemplín region ordered local Jews to wear a yellow band around their left arm from 5 April 1941, leading to physical attacks against Jews. In mid-1941, as the focus shifted to restricting Jews' civil rights after they had been deprived of their property through Aryanization, 1775: 1073: 530: 401: 1299:; about one third of those who fled to Hungary survived the war. Many owners of Aryanized businesses applied for work exemptions for the Jewish former owners. In some cases this was a fictitious Aryanization; other Aryanizers, motivated by profit, kept the Jewish former owners around for their skills. About 2,000 Jews had false papers identifying themselves as Aryans. Some Christian clergy baptized Jews, even those who were not sincere converts. Although conversion after 1939 did not exempt Jews from deportation, being baptized made it easier to obtain other exemptions and some clergy edited records to predate baptisms. 803: 1729:, the commander of Einsatzgruppe H, committed suicide in 1946 during extradition to Czechoslovakia; Wisliceny was tried, convicted and executed in Bratislava in 1948. Tiso (who had fled to Austria) was extradited to Czechoslovakia, convicted of treason and collaboration, sentenced to death on 15 April 1947, and executed three days later. According to the court, his "most immoral, most unchristian, and most inhuman" action was ordering the deportation of the Slovak Jews. Other perpetrators, including Tuka, were also tried, convicted, and executed. Both Tiso and Tuka were tried under 1545:. Brunner raided the castle on 11 October; all but three of the prisoners were taken to Sereď and deported to Auschwitz on 17 October. In mid-October, an office was established at the former Jewish Center to hunt down Jews in hiding, which tortured captured Jews into revealing the names and addresses of other Jews. The one to two thousand Jews left in Bratislava were ordered to turn themselves in on 20 November or face imprisonment, but few did so. Half of the Jews arrested after 19 November were in Bratislava, most in hiding with false papers. Henri Dunand of the 1131:

sometimes deported exemption-holders. The victims were given only four hours' warning, to prevent them from escaping. Beatings and forcible shaving were commonplace, as was subjecting Jews to invasive searches to uncover hidden valuables. Although some guards and local officials accepted bribes to keep Jews off the transports, the victim would typically be deported on the next train. Others took advantage of their power to rape Jewish women. Jews were only allowed to bring 50 kilograms (110 lb) of personal items with them, but even this was frequently stolen.

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lost 85 to 90 percent of its Jewish population, Žilina reported that almost half of its Jews remained after the deportation. The deportees were held briefly in five camps in Slovakia before deportation; 26,384 from Žilina, 7,500 from Patrónka, 7,000 from Poprad, 4,463 from Sereď, and 4,000 to 5,000 from Nováky. Nineteen trains went to Auschwitz, and another thirty-eight went to ghettos and concentration and extermination camps in the Lublin District. Only a few hundred survived the war, most at Auschwitz; almost no one survived in Lublin District.

369: 1231:. At this time of the speech, the Slovak government had accurate information on the mass murder of the deportees from Slovakia; an official request to inspect the camps where Slovak Jews were held in Poland was denied by Eichmann. Three more transports occurred in September and October 1942 before ceasing until 1944. By the end of 1942, only 500 or 600 Slovak Jews were still alive at Auschwitz. Thousands of surviving Slovak Jews in the Lublin District were shot on 3–4 November 1943 during 160: 664: 864: 1646:, a small village 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) away from Banská Bystrica. Upon the capture of the rebel stronghold, Jews, partisans, Romanis, and others arrested in the area were held in the prison in the town. Of these, 743 people were brought to Kremnička for execution in a series of massacres between November and March, by Einsatzgruppe H and the POHG. Victims included 280 women and 99 children; half were Jewish. Hundreds of people were murdered at the nearby village of 648:(Ks) in property (38 percent of the national wealth). The process is also described as "Slovakization", as the Slovak government took steps to ensure that ethnic Slovaks, rather than Germans or other minorities, received the stolen Jewish property. Due to the intervention of the German Party and Nazi Germany, ethnic Germans received 8.3 percent of the stolen property, but most German applicants were refused, underscoring the freedom of action of the Slovak government. 1397:, issued documents to 3,000 Jews allowing them to legally cross the border, bringing the total number of Jews in Slovakia to 25,000. Between 14 May and 7 July 437,000 Jews were deported from Hungary, most to Auschwitz; including many Slovak Jews in the country. To counter the perceived security threat of Jews in the Šariš-Zemplín region with the front line moving westward, on 15 May 1944 the Slovak government ordered Jews to move to the western part of the country. 660:

the land officially passed to the state in May 1942. The First Aryanization Law was passed in April 1940. Through a process known as "voluntary Aryanization", Jewish business owners could suggest a "qualified Christian candidate" who would assume at least a 51-percent stake in the company. After three months, 50 businesses out of more than 12,000 were Aryanized and 179 were liquidated. HSĽS radicals and the Slovak Republic's German backers sought a harsher policy.

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main beneficiaries of Aryanization were members of Slovak fascist political parties and paramilitary groups, who were eager to acquire Jewish property but had little expertise in running businesses. During the Slovak Republic's existence, the government gained 1,100 million Ks from Aryanization and spent 900–950 million Ks on enforcing anti-Jewish measures. In 1942, it paid the German government another 300 million Ks for the deportation of 58,000 Jews.

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60 for labor. Although the ÚŽ had to supplement the workers' pay to meet the legal minimum, the labor camps greatly increased the living standard of Jews impoverished by Aryanization. By September, 5,500 Jews were performing manual labor for private companies at about 80 small labor centers, most of which were dissolved in the final months of 1941 as part of the preparation for deportation. Construction began on three larger camps –

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the intended capacity. Brunner took over the camp's administration from the Slovak government at the end of September. About 11,700 people were deported on eleven transports; the first five (from 30 September to 17 October) went to Auschwitz, where most of the victims were gassed. The final transport to Auschwitz, on 2 November, arrived after the gas chambers were shut down. Later transports left for

1014:. No record survives of this meeting, at which the deportation of Jews from Slovakia was probably first discussed, leading to historiographical debate over who proposed the idea. Even if the Germans made the offer, the Slovak decision was not motivated by German pressure. In November 1941, the Slovak government permitted the German government to deport the 659 Slovak Jews living in the Reich and the 1692:. Although a postwar Czechoslovak law negated property transactions arising from Nazi persecution, the autonomous Slovak government refused to apply it. Heirless property was nationalized in 1947 into the Currency Liquidation Fund. Those who had stolen Jewish property were reluctant to return it; former resistance members had also appropriated some stolen property. Conflict over restitution led to 1303:

agricultural experts, whose professions had shortages). One thousand Jews were protected by presidential exemptions, mostly in addition to other exemptions. As well as the exempted Jews, around 2,500 were interned in labor camps, and a thousand were serving in the Sixth Labor Battalion. When the deportations were halted, the government knew the whereabouts of only 2,500 Jews without exemptions.

635:. By early 1941, further emigration was impossible; even Jews who received valid United States visas were not allowed transit visas through Germany. The total number of Slovak Jewish emigrants has been estimated at 5,000 to 6,000. As 45,000 lived in the areas ceded to Hungary, the 1940 census found that 89,000 Jews lived in the Slovak Republic, 3.4 percent of the population. 890:. The Jewish Code excluded Jews from public life, restricting the hours that they were allowed to travel and shop, and barring them from clubs, organizations, and public events. Jews also had to pay a 20-percent tax on all property. Government propaganda boasted that the Jewish Code was the strictest set of anti-Jewish laws in Europe. The president could issue 510:, leader of the party's radical fascist wing, was appointed prime minister. Both wings of the party struggled for Germany's favor. The radical wing of the party was pro-German, while the conservatives favored autonomy from Germany; the radicals relied on the Hlinka Guard and German support, while Tiso was popular among the clergy and the population. 1156:, visited Bratislava on 10 April, and he and Tuka agreed that further deportations would target whole families and eventually remove all Jews from Slovakia. The family transports began on 11 April, and took their victims to the Lublin District. During the first half of June 1942 ten transports stopped briefly at Majdanek, where able-bodied men were 1611:, departing 26 November, ended up at Ravensbrück. According to a Czechoslovak criminal investigation, another 800 Jews were deported in two transports from eastern Slovakia on 16 October and 16 December. Details on the transports leaving from locations other than Sereď is fragmentary, and the total number of deportees is not known. Slovak historian 777:, who thwarted anti-Jewish orders to the best of his ability: he sabotaged a census of Jews in eastern Slovakia which was intended to justify their removal to the west of the country; Wisliceny had him arrested in April 1941. The Central Economic Office appointed the more cooperative Arpad Sebestyen as Schwartz's replacement. Wisliceny set up a 1029:, which retroactively legalized the deportation of Jews, authorized the removal of their citizenship, and regulated exemptions. Opposition centered on economic, moral, and legal obstacles, but, as Mach later stated, "every who has spoken on this issue has said that we should get rid of Jews". The official Catholic representative and Bishop of 248:, many Slovak Jews moved to cities and joined all the professions; others remained in the countryside, mostly working as artisans, merchants, and shopkeepers. Jews spearheaded the nineteenth-century economic changes that led to greater commerce in rural areas; by the end of the century some 70 percent of the bankers and businessmen in the 1861:

is "a paradox for postcommunist Slovakia’s identity construction" because it was the first nominally independent Slovak state. Emphasizing its independence carries with it a greater responsibility for the deportation of Jews during the Holocaust, but if not, then it loses its role as legitimation for

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and other antisemitic myths while urging Catholics to treat Jews humanely. The Catholic Church ultimately chose not to discipline any of the Slovak Catholics who were complicit in the regime's actions. Officials from the ÚŽ and several of the most influential Slovak rabbis sent petitions to Tiso, but

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Between 25 March and 20 October 1942, almost 58,000 Jews (two-thirds of the population) were deported. The exact number is unknown due to discrepancies in the sources. The deportations disproportionately affected poorer Jews from eastern Slovakia. Although the Šariš-Zemplín region in eastern Slovakia

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increased assaults on Jews, engaged in antisemitic demonstrations on a daily basis, and harassed non-Jews judged insufficiently antisemitic. The law enabled the Central Economic Office to force Jews to change their residence. This provision was put into effect on 4 October 1941, when 10,000 of 15,000

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of Jewish property and the Aryanization or liquidation of Jewish businesses. In a corrupt process overseen by Morávek's office, 10,000 Jewish businesses (mostly shops) were liquidated and the remainder – about 2,300 – were Aryanized. Liquidation benefited small Slovak businesses competing with Jewish

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four-percent quota of the numbers of Jews allowed to practice law; Jews were also forbidden to write for non-Jewish publications. The Land Reform Act of February 1940 turned 101,423 hectares (250,620 acres) of land owned by 4,943 Jews, more than 40 percent of it arable, over to the State Land Office;

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was established in 2002 to provide access to the records of both the Slovak Republic and Communist state. The post-Communist government enacted laws for the restitution of Jewish property, but residency and citizenship requirements prevented emigrants from filing claims. In 2002, ten percent of the

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In mid-1941, the Germans demanded (per previous agreements) another 20,000 Slovak laborers to work in Germany. Slovakia refused to send gentile Slovaks and instead offered an equal number of Jewish workers, although it did not want to be burdened with their families. A letter sent on 15 October 1941

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The first labor centers were established in early 1941 by the ÚŽ as retraining courses for Jews forced into unemployment; 13,612 Jews had applied for the courses by February, far exceeding the programs' capacity. On 4 July, the Slovak government issued a decree conscripting all Jewish men aged 18 to

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law that mandated the death penalty for the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising; their roles in the Holocaust were a subset of the crimes for which they were convicted. The authors of some of the more egregious antisemitic articles and caricatures were prosecuted after the war. The trials

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of the prewar population, had been murdered. In addition to the 10,000 to 11,000 Jews who survived in Slovakia, 9,000 Jews returned who had been deported to concentration camps or fled abroad, and 10,000 Jews survived in the Hungarian-annexed territories. By the end of 1945, 33,000 Jews were living

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because the Slovak authorities frequently avoided implementing measures pushed by the Germans when such measures did not suit Slovak priorities. According to German historian Barbara Hutzelmann, "Although the country was not independent, in the full sense of the word, it would be too simplistic to

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Sereď concentration camp was the primary facility for interning Jews before their deportation. Although there were no transports until the end of September, the Jews experienced harsh treatment (including rape and murder) and severe overcrowding as the population swelled to 3,000 – more than twice

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After the uprising began, thousands of Jews fled to the mountainous interior and partisan-controlled areas around Banská Bystrica, including many who left the labor camps after the guards fled. Around 1,600 to 2,000 Jews fought as partisans, ten percent of the total insurgent force, although many

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The uprising provided the Germans with an opportunity to implement the Final Solution in Slovakia. Anti-Jewish actions were nominally controlled by the Slovak Ministry of Defense, but in practice the Germans dictated policy. Unlike the deportations of 1942, the roundups of Jews were organized and

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Aryanization resulted in an immense financial loss for Slovakia and great destruction of wealth. The state failed to raise substantial funds from the sale of Jewish property and businesses, and most of its gains came from the confiscation of Jewish-owned bank accounts and financial securities. The

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Aryanization in Slovakia, the seizure of Jewish-owned property and exclusion of Jews from the economy, was justified by the stereotype (reinforced by HSĽS propaganda) of Jews obtaining their wealth by oppressing Slovaks. Between 1939 and 1942, the HSĽS regime received widespread popular support by

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were in charge of rounding up the Jews, guarding the transit centers, and eventually forcing them into train cars for deportation. A German officer was stationed at each of the concentration centers. Official exemptions were supposed to keep certain Jews from being deported, but local authorities

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outside the Reich and German-occupied Poland, the ÚŽ was the only secular Jewish organization allowed to exist in Slovakia; membership was required of all Jews. Leaders of the Jewish community were divided about how to respond to this development. Although some argued that the ÚŽ would be used to

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After the deportations, between 22,000 and 25,000 Jews were still in Slovakia. Some 16,000 Jews had exemptions; there were 4,217 converts to Christianity before 1939, at least 985 Jews in mixed marriages, and 9,687 holders of economic exemptions (particularly doctors, pharmacists, engineers, and

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and under Tuka's control, in September 1940. The Central Economic Office was tasked with assuming ownership of Jewish-owned property. Jews were required to register their property; their bank accounts (valued at 245 million Ks in August 1941) were frozen, and withdrawals were limited to 1,000 Ks

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groups. Preparations for the uprising evoked mixed feelings in the remaining Slovak Jews, who feared that an uprising would bring about a crackdown on their community. Underground groups organized at the Sereď and Nováky labor camps. Slovak authorities began to re-register Jews in January 1944,

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that the transports would soon resume. In early 1943, the Hlinka Guard and Department 14 prepared for the resumption of deportations: registering Jews, canceling economic exemptions, and hunting down Jews in hiding. A plan to dispatch four trains between 18 and 22 April was not implemented. In

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Jews serving in the army were segregated into a labor unit in April 1939 and were stripped of their rank at the end of the year. From 1940, male Jews and Romani people were obliged to work for the national defense (generally manual labor on construction projects) for two months every year. All

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After the German invasion, about 4,000 people were murdered in Slovakia, mostly by Einsatzgruppe H, but with help from local collaborators. About half (2,000) of the victims were Jews; other victims included partisans, supporters of the uprising, and Romani people. One of the first executions

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and nationalization of many businesses after the war. The number of Jewish communities decreased from the postwar high of 126 to 25, while the population decreased by 80 percent. Only a few thousand Jews were left by the end of 1949. Many of those who chose to stay changed their surnames and

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Jews who were captured were briefly imprisoned at local prisons or the Einsatzgruppe H office in Bratislava, from which they were sent to Sereď for deportation. Local authorities provided lists of Jews, and many local residents also denounced Jews. In the first half of September there were

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in which the Czechoslovak government accused fourteen Communists (eleven of them Jewish) of belonging to a Zionist conspiracy. Political censorship hampered the study of the Holocaust, and memorials to the victims of fascism did not mention Jews. In the 1960s, which were characterized by a

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During 1943, enforcement of anti-Jewish laws lessened, and many Jews stopped wearing the yellow star. Nevertheless, the remaining Jews – even those with exemptions – lived in constant fear of deportation. The ÚŽ worked to improve conditions for laborers in the Slovak camps and to increase

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Jews in Bratislava (who were not employed or intermarried) were ordered to move to fourteen towns. The relocation was paid for and carried out by the ÚŽ's Department of Special Tasks. Although the Jews were ordered to leave by 31 December, fewer than 7,000 people had moved by March 1942.

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confronted the president with reliable reports of the mass murder of Jewish civilians in the Ukraine. Slovak newspapers wrote many articles attempting to refute rumors that deported Jews were mistreated, pointing to general knowledge by mid-1942 that deported Jews were no longer alive.

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in Latin on 8 March condemning antisemitism and totalitarianism and defending the rights of all Jews. Germany put increasing pressure on the Slovak Republic to hand over its remaining Jews in 1943 and 1944, but Slovak politicians did not agree to resume the deportations.

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Many Jews learned about the fate awaiting them during the first half of 1942, from sources such as letters from deported Jews or escapees. Around 5,000 to 6,000 Jews fled to Hungary to avoid the deportations, many by paying bribes or with help from paid smugglers and the

559:"; anti-Jewish legislation was the only concrete measure that he promised. The persecution of Jews was a key element of the state's domestic policy. Discriminatory measures affected all aspects of life, serving to isolate and dispossess Jews before they were deported. 588:, and the German Party participated. The deportees included young children, the elderly, and pregnant women. A few days later, Tiso canceled the operation; most of the Jews were allowed to return home in December. More than 800 were confined to makeshift tent camps at 1452:

for the uprising. Nevertheless, the Slovak government preferred the concentration of Jews in concentration camps in Slovakia to their deportation. Tiso asked for the Germans to spare at least baptized Jews and those in mixed marriages, but his requests were ignored.

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and endorsed by the government sparked international controversy (and was eventually withdrawn from the school curriculum) because it portrayed Jews as living happily in labor camps during the war. Tiso and the Slovak Republic have been the focus of Catholic and

83:. The exclusion of Jews from the economy impoverished the community, which encouraged the government to conscript them for forced labor. On 9 September 1941, the government passed the Jewish Code, which it claimed to be the strictest anti-Jewish law in Europe. 1223:. This occurred for nine transports, the last of which arrived on 21 October 1942. From 1 August to 18 September, no transports departed; most of the Jews not exempt from deportation had already been deported or had fled to Hungary. In mid-August, Tiso gave a 1447:

instructed Burzio to tell Tiso that the Vatican condemned the persecution of individuals for their race or nationality. The United States and Switzerland issued formal protests against the deportation of Jews. Slovak propaganda blamed the Jews and

1172:. Some groups stayed only briefly before they were deported again to the extermination camps, while other groups remained in the ghettos for months or years. Some of the deportees ended up in the forced-labor camps in the Lublin District (such as 1108:. Slovak officials promised that deportees would be allowed to return home after a fixed period, and many Jews initially believed that it was better to report for deportation rather than risk reprisals against their families. On 25 March 1942, the 1836:

in 2004. During the 1990s, many memorials were constructed to commemorate Holocaust victims, and in October 2001 Slovakia designated 9 September (the anniversary of the passage of the Jewish Code) as Holocaust Victims and Racial Hatred Day. The

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the following year. Although the Ministry of Defense was pressured by the Ministry of the Interior to release the Jews for deportation in 1942, it refused. The battalion was disbanded in 1943, and the Jewish laborers were sent to work camps.

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for transport. The 500 Reichsmark fee was equivalent to about USD$ 125 at the time, or $ 2,300 today. The Germans promised in exchange that the Jews would never return, and Slovakia could keep all confiscated property. Except for the

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for Slovakia, arriving in August. He aimed to impoverish the Jewish community so it would become a burden on non-Jewish Slovaks, who would then agree to deport them. At Wisliceny's instigation, the Slovak government created the

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productivity, to strengthen the incentive to keep their workers in Slovakia. In 1943, the labor camps earned 39 million Ks for the Slovak Republic. The halt in deportations from Slovakia enabled the Working Group to launch the

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affected Jewish-owned businesses and also increased economic antisemitism. Economic underdevelopment and perceptions of discrimination in Czechoslovakia led a plurality (about one-third) of Slovaks to support the conservative,

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at the expense of Slovak ambitions. During the Holocaust, leading members of the Slovak government cited their belief that Jews were Hungarians or served Hungarian interests as a reason for their persecution and deportation.

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The highest levels of the Slovak government were aware by late 1941 of mass murders of Jews in German-occupied territories. In July 1941, Wisliceny organized a visit by Slovak government officials to several camps run by

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for Auschwitz with 1,000 unmarried Jewish women between the ages of 16 and 45. During the first wave of deportations (which ended on 2 April), 6,000 young, single Jews were deported to Auschwitz and Majdanek.

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promising Slovak citizens that they would be enriched by property confiscated from Jews and other minorities. They stood to gain a significant amount of money; in 1940, Jews registered more than 4.322 billion

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implement anti-Jewish measures, more saw participation in the ÚŽ as a way to help their fellow Jews by delaying the implementation of such measures and alleviating poverty. The first leader of the ÚŽ was

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the current Slovak republic. Holocaust relativism in Slovakia tends to manifest as attempts to absolve the Tiso government of blame by deflecting responsibility onto Germans and Jews. A 1997 textbook by

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to spare the surviving Jews under German occupation. It also smuggled aid to Jews in Poland, and helped Polish Jews escape to Hungary via Slovakia. In late April 1944 two Auschwitz escapees,

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Initially, many Jews believed that the measures taken against them would be temporary. Nevertheless, some attempted to emigrate and take their property with them, particularly after the

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consider that 14,150 deportees can be verified and the true figure may be higher. The Slovak regime also transferred several hundred political prisoners to German custody. Deported to

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for Auschwitz on 1 and 5 September; Fatran estimates that the total number of deportees was about 400. In September and October, at least 131 people were deported from Slovakia via

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occurred in the Topoľčany district, where Einsatzkommando 14 began its mass roundups of Jews. Many of the arrested Jews were taken to Sereď for deportation, but 53 were shot in

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declared independence from Czechoslovakia. The Slovak government blamed the Jews for the territorial losses. Jews were targeted for discrimination and harassment, including the

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on free expression, while anti-Zionist propaganda, much of it imported from the Soviet Union, intensified and veered into antisemitism after Israeli victory in the 1967

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have been documented in the territory of modern-day Slovakia, but significant Jewish presence was ended with the expulsions following the Hungarian defeat at the

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The racial definition of Jews was criticized by the Catholic Church, and converts were eventually exempted from some of the requirements. The Hlinka Guard and

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Hutzelmann, Barbara (2018). "Einführung: Slowakei" [Introduction: Slovakia]. In Hutzelmann, Barbara; Hausleitner, Mariana; Hazan, Souzana (eds.).

7442:(2011). "Jews and non-Jews in the Aryanization Process: Comparison of France and the Slovak State, 1939–45". In Kosmala, Beate; Verbeeck, Georgi (eds.). 774: 604:, attracted international criticism, reduced British investment, increased dependence on German capital, and were a rehearsal for the 1942 deportations. 1523:... so was the kick, administered by an S.S.-man to a tardy Jew received by the large crowd ... with hand claps and cries of support and encouragement. 566:, antisemitic rioting broke out in Bratislava; newspapers justified the riots with Jews' alleged support for Hungary during the partition negotiations. 11707: 946:. The visitors understood that Jews in the camps lived under conditions which would eventually cause their deaths. Slovak soldiers participated in the 459:, banning opposition parties, shutting down independent newspapers, distributing antisemitic and anti-Czech propaganda, and founding the paramilitary 11229: 10478: 9354: 7503: 7405: 1067: 11380: 9460: 8380: 1026: 1021:

Early in 1942, Tuka and Wisliceny discussed the deportation of Jews from Slovakia. As indicated by a cable from the German ambassador to Slovakia,

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Some Jews had been arrested in Bratislava by 20 September. The largest roundup was carried out in the city during the night of 28/29 September by

1483:(POHG), were essential to Einsatzgruppe H's work. Collaborators denounced those in hiding, impersonated partisans, and aided with interrogations. 1185: 10063: 8959: 8859: 8126:

Legge, Jerome S. (2018). "Collaboration, Intelligence, and the Holocaust: Ferdinand Ďurčanský, Slovak Nationalism, and the Gehlen Organization".

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value of the nationalized heirless property was released into a fund that paid for Jewish education and Holocaust memorials. As of January 2019,

1711: 876: 449: 1832:. After Mečiar's fall in 1998, the Slovak government promoted Holocaust remembrance to demonstrate the country's European identity before it 894:

protecting individual Jews from the law. Employed Jews were initially exempt from some of the code's requirements, such as wearing the star.

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he did not reply. Ludin reported that the deportations were "very unpopular", but few Slovaks took action against them. By March 1942, the

1184:). Unusually, the deportees in the Lublin District were quickly able to establish contact with the Jews remaining in Slovakia, which led to 304:

broke out in the aftermath of the declaration of independence (1918–1920), although the violence was not nearly as serious as in Ukraine or

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Headline of 21 September 1941 propaganda-ministry publication: "We've dealt with the Jews! The strictest laws against Jews are Slovakia's."

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Transports went to Auschwitz after mid-June, where a minority of the victims were selected for labor and the remainder were killed in the

954:; they brought word of the mass shootings of Jews, and participated in at least one of the massacres. Some Slovaks were aware of the 1941 440:, was key to the regime with many of its leaders being bishops, priests, or laymen. Under Tiso's leadership, the Slovak government opened 10381: 10205: 8896: 1899: 1054:(which paid 30 Reichsmarks per person), Slovakia was the only country which paid to deport its Jewish population. According to historian 549:. Jewish businesses were robbed, and physical attacks on Jews occurred both spontaneously and at the instigation of the Hlinka Guard and 186: 1549:

provided funding for a clandestine group led by Arnold Lazar, which provided money, food, and clothing to Jews in hiding in Bratislava.

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Hutzelmann, Barbara (2016). "Slovak Society and the Jews: Attitudes and Patterns of Behaviour". In Bajohr, Frank; Löw, Andrea (eds.).

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estimated that 13,500 Jews were deported in 1944 and 1945, of whom 10,000 died, but Israeli historian Gila Fatran and Czech historian

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abandoned religious practice to fit in with the Slovak middle class. In 2019, the Jewish population was estimated at 2,000 to 3,000.

1449: 11224: 9565: 8539: 1604: 18: 10416: 9865: 9086: 8453:

Nižňanský, Eduard; Rajcan, Vanda; Hlavinka, Ján (2018a). "Nováky". In Megargee, Geoffrey P.; White, Joseph R.; Hecker, Mel (eds.).

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Gain equivalent to USD$ 27.5 million at the time, or $ 513,000,000 today. Loss equivalent to $ 22.5 million or $ 420,000,000 today.

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Nižňanský, Eduard; Rajcan, Vanda; Hlavinka, Ján (2018b). "Sereď". In Megargee, Geoffrey P.; White, Joseph R.; Hecker, Mel (eds.).

1288:, head of Department 14, and Wisliceny. It is unknown if the group's efforts had any connection with the halting of deportations. 11937: 11674: 11627: 11553: 11244: 11178: 10828: 10764: 10285: 10013: 9408: 9359: 9177: 9023: 9001: 8655: 8397: 8005: 1443:

Burzio met with Tiso on 22 and 29 September, reportedly calling Tiso a liar when the president denied knowledge of deportations.

1269: 917: 7489: 11700: 11287: 9589: 9073: 8806: 8072:[The phenomenon of corruption in the so-called solutions to the "Jewish questions" in Slovakia between 1938 and 1945]. 7470: 1833: 1806: 555:. In his first radio address following the establishment of the Slovak State in 1939, Tiso emphasized his desire to "solve the 524: 8611: 1272:(an underground organization which operated under the auspices of the ÚŽ) had formed to oppose the deportations. Its leaders, 11927: 11593: 9134: 9040: 8519: 8500: 8481: 8462: 8443: 8424: 8405: 7681: 7655: 7634: 7609: 7572: 7541: 7522: 7478: 7451: 7425: 7391: 7360: 7335: 7313: 7280: 7255: 7230: 7205: 7182: 7156: 7131: 7104: 7079: 7060: 7038: 6988: 6961: 6942: 6921: 6902: 6872: 891: 495: 385: 11532: 11449: 11415: 9969: 9387: 9227: 9144: 8821: 7796: 7626: 7305: 7028: 6998: 6605: 1969: 1838: 1643: 1632: 8514:. Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. Vol. 3. Bloomington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. pp. 889–890. 8476:. Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. Vol. 3. Bloomington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. pp. 878–880. 8419:. Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. Vol. 3. Bloomington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. pp. 854–855. 11558: 11525: 11520: 11515: 11510: 10931: 10774: 10607: 10252: 9715: 9455: 1015: 935: 886:, the code defined Jews in terms of ancestry, banned intermarriage, and required that all Jews over six years old wear a 882:

The Slovak parliament passed the Jewish Code on 9 September 1941, which contained 270 anti-Jewish articles. Based on the

11295: 8276: 1762: 1356: 1203: 1058:, "the fact that the Tiso regime let Germany do the dirty work should not conceal its desire to “cleanse” the economy". 11907: 11111: 9803: 8816: 8571: 7707: 7247: 1377: 476: 475:

militia. HSĽS imprisoned thousands of its political opponents, but never carried out a sentence of capital punishment.

1224: 607: 284:), and national antisemitism: Jews were strongly associated with the Hungarian state and accused of sympathizing with 11922: 11917: 11693: 11537: 9584: 9329: 8438:. Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. Vol. 3. Bloomington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 871. 8155:

Lônčíková, Michala (2017). "Was the antisemitic propaganda a catalyst for tensions in the Slovak-Jewish relations?".

1563: 1425:, which broke out on 29 August 1944. The insurgent forces seized central Slovakia but were defeated on 27 October at 1177: 998:

to make room for deported Jews from Slovakia and Germany. In late October, Tiso, Tuka, Mach, and Čatloš visited the

138: 9599: 9535: 8186:"The discussions of Nazi Germany on the deportation of Jews in 1942 – the examples of Slovakia, Rumania and Hungary" 537:

Immediately after it came to power in 1938, the autonomous government began firing Jewish government employees. The

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as the solution to Slovakia's problems. The party began to emphasize antisemitism during the late 1930s following a

106:; only a few hundred survived until the end of the war. The Slovak government organized the transports and paid 500 11932: 11598: 11586: 11444: 10870: 10370: 9827: 9604: 9545: 9520: 9309: 9237: 8879: 8685: 8591: 7346: 1747: 1577: 1480: 123: 7726:

Cichopek-Gajraj, Anna (2018). "Nepokradeš! Nálady a postoje slovenské společnosti k židovské otázce, 1938–1945 ".

6980: 2724: 2140: 11603: 11197: 11043: 9448: 9443: 9124: 8886: 7645: 7466: 7008: 1968:

Equivalent to USD$ 108 million at the time, or $ 2,010,000,000 today. All currency conversions are made from the

1858: 1743: 1037:, requested separate settlements in Poland for converts to Christianity. The Slovak government agreed to pay 500 951: 692: 405: 154: 145:

in 1989. The Slovak government's complicity in the Holocaust continues to be disputed by far-right nationalists.

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Searching for Justice after the Holocaust: Fulfilling the Terezin Declaration and Immovable Property Restitution

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as forced laborers. Department 14 organized the deportations, while the Slovak Transport Ministry provided the

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was founded on 23 January 1939 to discuss anti-Jewish legislation. The state-sponsored media demonized Jews as "

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The Making of the Slovak People's Party: Religion, Nationalism and the Culture War in Early 20th-Century Europe

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When Wisliceny arrived, all Jewish community organizations were dissolved and the Jews were forced to form the

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Rajcan, Vanda (2018a). "Bratislava/Patrónka". In Megargee, Geoffrey P.; White, Joseph R.; Hecker, Mel (eds.).

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Nižňanský, Eduard (2014). "On Relations between the Slovak Majority and Jewish Minority During World War II".

5281: 778: 663: 424:, to Germany. HSĽS took advantage of the ensuing political chaos to declare Slovakia's autonomy on 6 October. 11319: 10737: 10577: 9740: 9594: 9575: 9555: 9525: 9418: 7809: 1981:

The Land Reform Act did not explicitly target Jews, but it was rarely enforced against non-Jewish landowners.

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and is especially popular with younger voters, promotes a positive view of the Slovak Republic. Its leader,

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on the new Slovak–Hungarian border during the winter. The Slovak deportations occurred just after Germany's

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Paulovičová, Nina (2018). "Holocaust Memory and Antisemitism in Slovakia: The Postwar Era to the Present".

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The Czechoslovak government supported Zionism, insisting that Jews assimilate into Czechoslovak culture or

1340: 1173: 1103: 1085: 1051: 958:, in which 23,600 Jews, many of them deported from Hungary, were shot in western Ukraine. Defense minister 955: 95: 10235: 7561:

Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933–1945

1181: 133:, survivors faced renewed antisemitism and difficulty regaining stolen property; most emigrated after the 11351: 10784: 10769: 10670: 10516: 10440: 9652: 9609: 9570: 9470: 9304: 9170: 8678: 7952: 7096: 1847: 1616: 1208: 1089: 437: 297: 226: 11760: 11464: 9762: 8736: 7893:

Büchler, Yehoshua (1996). "First in the Vale of Affliction: Slovakian Jewish Women in Auschwitz, 1942".

1673: 844: 807: 684: 683:, Germany demanded the replacement of several members of the cabinet with reliably pro-German radicals. 11492: 11217: 10642: 10521: 10491: 10410: 10327: 10160: 9798: 9696: 9657: 9614: 9550: 9423: 9299: 7514: 7463:

The Tragedy of the Jews of Slovakia 1938–1945: Slovakia and the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question"

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opposed deportation, fearing that such actions from a Catholic government would discredit the church.

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per deportee (ostensibly to cover shelter, food, retraining and housing) and an additional fee to the

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proclaimed its independence with German support and protection. Germany annexed and invaded the Czech

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The original deportation plan, approved in February 1942, entailed the deportation of 7,000 women to

947: 470: 218: 1863: 1654:'s Jewish cemetery was used as an execution site; 218 bodies were exhumed after the end of the war. 1410: 164: 110:

per Jew for the supposed cost of resettlement. The persecution of Jews resumed in August 1944, when

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emphasizes German influence on Slovak internal and external politics and describes it as a "German

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to German-occupied Poland, with the proviso that their confiscated property be passed to Slovakia.

872: 726: 722: 718: 333: 300:. Jews lived in 227 communities (in 1918) and their population was estimated at 135,918 (in 1921). 261: 115: 76: 11656: 10185: 8746: 8434:

Hlavinka, Ján (2018). "Marianka". In Megargee, Geoffrey P.; White, Joseph R.; Hecker, Mel (eds.).

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Rajcan, Vanda (2018c). "Žilina". In Megargee, Geoffrey P.; White, Joseph R.; Hecker, Mel (eds.).

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Rajcan, Vanda (2018b). "Poprad". In Megargee, Geoffrey P.; White, Joseph R.; Hecker, Mel (eds.).

7694:(2007). "The Robbery of Jewish Property in Eastern European States Allied with Nazi Germany". In 7174: 4899: 1801: 1701: 1373: 1034: 464: 308:. Slovak nationalists associated Jews with the Czechoslovak state and accused them of supporting 9819: 9058: 977: 181:

Before 1939, Slovakia had never been an independent country; its territory had been part of the

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In 1941, the Slovak government negotiated with Nazi Germany for the mass deportation of Jews to

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Ward, James Mace (2002). ""People Who Deserve It": Jozef Tiso and the Presidential Exemption".

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in which he described Jews as the "eternal enemy" and justified the deportations according to

753: 11469: 11075: 10697: 10322: 10275: 9939: 9690: 9091: 8070:"Fenomén korupcie v procese tzv. riešenia "židovskej otázky" na Slovensku v rokoch 1938–1945" 7815: 7197: 7090: 6894: 5291: 1886:, once described Jews as "devils in human skin". Members of the party have been charged with 1708:

estimates that at least 36 Jews were murdered and more than 100 injured in postwar violence.

1697: 1589: 1188:. The fate of the Jews deported from Slovakia was ultimately "sealed within the framework of 1157: 959: 764:(Jewish Center, ÚŽ, subordinate to the Central Economic Office) in September 1940. The first 529: 433: 400: 353: 285: 281: 9053: 8095:"Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust in history and memory" 7619:

Kubátová, Hana (2014). "Jewish Resistance in Slovakia, 1938–1945". In Henry, Patrick (ed.).

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Concerned about the increase in resistance, Germany invaded Slovakia; this precipitated the

463:. Parties for the German and Hungarian minorities were allowed under HSĽS hegemony, and the 11013: 10660: 10597: 10180: 9964: 9855: 9833: 9728: 9723: 9704: 8389: 8237: 8185: 7291: 7148: 1829: 1705: 1390: 1336: 931: 542: 118:. Another 13,500 Jews were deported and hundreds to thousands were murdered in Slovakia by 11343: 10914: 10526: 7789:

Synagogue Architecture in Slovakia Towards Creating a Memorial Landscape of Lost Community

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The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938–89: Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Zionism

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The first anti-Jewish law, passed on 18 April 1939 and not systematically enforced, was a

502:, but occupied an intermediate status. In October 1939, Tiso, leader of the conservative- 8: 11879: 10747: 10655: 10501: 10088: 8751: 8267: 7591: 1879: 1783: 1568: 1508:(7 September), during which 616 Jews were arrested and imprisoned in Ilava and Sereď. In 1381: 1361: 1329: 1169: 1113: 1044: 680: 672: 632: 571: 546: 491: 269: 234: 134: 103: 11685: 9883: 9873: 7859: 7832: 7587: 7115: 1197: 190: 10974: 10127: 10122: 9629: 8778: 8330: 8270:[Einsatzgruppe H in Uprising-era Slovakia (1944–1945) and Postwar Prosecution] 8254: 8214: 8172: 8114: 7842: 7743: 7647:

Bringing the Dark Past to Light. The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe

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Ward, James Mace (2015). "The 1938 First Vienna Award and the Holocaust in Slovakia".

7862:(1991). "The deportation of Slovakian Jews to the Lublin District of Poland in 1942". 7839:

Slovak Jews in Theresienstadt, Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen, 1944/1945

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in Slovakia. Many survivors had lost their entire families, and a third suffered from

1426: 11335: 10952: 10732: 10592: 10423: 10337: 10304: 10218: 10035: 10001: 8515: 8496: 8477: 8458: 8439: 8420: 8401: 8359: 8334: 8322: 8293: 8258: 8223: 8200: 8176: 8143: 8118: 8094: 8081: 8056: 7989: 7964: 7939: 7910: 7881: 7747: 7703: 7677: 7665: 7651: 7630: 7605: 7568: 7537: 7518: 7474: 7447: 7435: 7421: 7404:(2017). "The Murder of European Jewry: Nazi Genocide in Continental Perspective". In 7387: 7356: 7331: 7309: 7276: 7251: 7226: 7201: 7178: 7152: 7127: 7123: 7100: 7075: 7056: 7034: 7012: 6984: 6957: 6938: 6917: 6898: 6887: 6868: 1821: 1529: 1430: 1256: 1149: 349: 193:

in 1526. Many Jews immigrated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Jews from

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Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States: Decisions and Annotations

1854: 589: 11639: 11327: 11212: 11166: 11009: 10709: 10687: 10506: 10496: 10225: 10213: 10195: 10132: 9006: 8979: 8972: 8968: 8964: 8849: 8756: 8351: 8318: 8314: 8285: 8268:"Einsatzgruppe H na povstaleckém Slovensku (1944–1945) a poválečné trestní stíhání" 8246: 8164: 8135: 8106: 8048: 8017: 7931: 7902: 7873: 7834:

Slovenští Židé v Terezíně, Sachsenhausenu, Ravensbrücku a Bergen-Belsenu, 1944/1945

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The Pope's Dilemma: Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War

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with that of Germany. Another result of the Salzburg talks was the appointment of

11649: 11400: 11135: 11029: 11017: 10890: 10820: 10779: 10619: 10612: 10429: 10332: 10190: 10170: 10083: 9919: 9048: 8864: 8022: 7805: 7413: 7379: 7166: 7002: 1938: 1462: 1385: 1349: 991: 982: 654: 556: 429: 337: 309: 202: 198: 119: 99: 10878: 5445: 2722: 1757:. Jews who had declared German or Hungarian nationality on a prewar census were 971: 72:, signed in November. The following year, with German encouragement, the ruling 11765: 10851: 10692: 10587: 10486: 10457: 10149: 10113: 10068: 9778: 9685: 9028: 8919: 8008:[No Man’s Land in 1938. Deportation beyond the Bounds of Citizenship]. 7695: 7669: 7401: 7348:

Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia

7272: 2739: 1883: 1846:(the official Israeli memorial to the Holocaust) has recognized 602 Slovaks as 1497: 1369: 1325: 1264: 1055: 999: 943: 883: 863: 831: 785: 688: 578:. Between 4 and 7 November, 4,000 or 7,600 Jews were deported, in a chaotic, 575: 567: 268:". In the western Slovak lands, anti-Jewish riots broke out in the wake of the 230: 65: 10073: 9893: 8954: 7016: 1585: 1434: 1285: 781:

in the ÚŽ to ensure the prompt implementation of Nazi decrees, appointing the

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and democratic opponents of the regime. Other anti-fascists retreated to the

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of the Ministry of the Interior was formed to enforce anti-Jewish measures.

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was joined by the stereotypical view of Jews as exploiters of poor Slovaks (

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A Slovak propaganda poster exhorts readers not to "be a servant to the Jew".

11869: 11799: 11775: 11581: 11207: 11063: 10956: 10855: 10794: 9944: 9929: 9924: 9898: 9851: 9783: 9745: 9495: 8949: 8874: 7906: 7409: 7144:

Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938–48: Beyond Idealisation and Condemnation

7048: 7024: 6882: 5384: 5382: 5380: 1934: 1923: 1689: 1612: 1501: 1220: 1011: 1007: 887: 704: 668: 620: 597: 507: 499: 483: 460: 456: 344:: HSĽS). HSĽS viewed minority groups such as Czechs, Hungarians, Jews, and 257: 249: 46: 42: 38: 8289: 7935: 7877: 7534:

The Holocaust and European Societies: Social Processes and Social Dynamics

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Half of Bratislava was on its feet this morning to watch the show of the

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List of Holocaust transports from Slovakia § Transports to Auschwitz

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censored discussion of the Holocaust; free speech was restored after the

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Rajcan, Vanda; Vadkerty, Madeline; Hlavinka, Ján (2018). "Slovakia". In

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indicates that plans were being made for the mass murder of Jews in the

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and HSĽS leader, became prime minister of the Slovak autonomous region.

159: 11739: 11051: 10789: 10624: 10397: 10175: 8944: 8052: 7564: 7496:

Candidates for Power and Success. Formation of Elites in Modern History

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Facing the Catastrophe: Jews and non-Jews in Europe during World War II

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Vanished History: The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture

5481: 4829: 3873: 3373: 1805:, focused on Slovak culpability for the Holocaust. Following the 1968 1639: 1141:

List of Holocaust transports from Slovakia § Transports to Lublin

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Finale der Vernichtung: die Einsatzgruppe H in der Slowakei 1944/1945

3363: 3361: 2910: 2567: 2423: 2219: 1990:

Equivalent to USD$ 6.125 million at the time, or $ 114,200,000 today.

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captured Slovakia by the end of April 1945. Around 69,000 Jews,

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Bohemia: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Böhmischen Länder

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Robbery and Restitution: The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe

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to Hungary and Switzerland; it reached the Western Allies in July.

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