Language:
English
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
42,2 (2014) 47-89
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Aryanization
;
World War, 1939-1945 Deportations from Slovakia
Abstract:
Examines the actions and behavior of lower ranks of the national administration in the Slovak state and of the non-Jewish populace towards the Jews in three focal periods of the perpetration of the Holocaust in Slovakia: the Aryanization in 1940; the deportation to the Nazi camps in 1942; and the deportation of 1944, which occurred during the time of the Slovak National Uprising. The Aryanization (which often enriched people who had contacts with the state administration or with the Hlinka Party) created a vast "new middle class" that later passively acquiesced with the deportations. The beneficiaries of Aryanization were sometimes instrumental in the elimination of the former owners and workers of "their" businesses, but there were other Slovaks who provided Jews with exemptions from deportation, work permits, and Aryan papers, or even concealed them. Presents examples of both bad and good behavior of Slovaks during the deportations. Stresses that the deportations, even those of 1944, perpetrated mainly by the Germans, were impossible to carry out without the involvement of the Slovak administration and the Hlinka Guard. Dismisses the myth of Tiso as a "rescuer of Jews" (albeit allegedly on a modest scale). The responsibility for the deportation and death of Slovak Jews lies on the top echelons of the Slovak administration, both its moderate and radical factions.
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In English and Hebrew.
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