Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
7 (1998) 46-70
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
The Tiso regime that came to power in Slovakia in 1939 carried out an anti-Jewish policy modelled on that of Nazi Germany, which sent a special adviser for Jewish affairs, Dieter Wisliceny, to Slovakia. Knowing full well the fate of the Jews in the concentration camps, the government negotiated with the Germans for the deportation of the Slovak Jews, paying them a fee for each Jew deported. Repeated protests by Apostolic Delegate Giuseppe Burzio and by the Pope himself were of no avail. In 1942 ca. 60,000 Jews were deported. Describes the activities of the Working Group (Pracovná Skupina), which maintained contact with Jews in Poland, transmitted information to Hungary and the outside world, and smuggled Jews from Poland to Hungary. In 1943 it caused a stop in deportations by increasing the productivity of Jewish labor and its importance to the economy. But after the suppression of the Slovak insurrection of 1944, in which Jewish partisans participated, the Germans deported another 12,500 Jews.
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