Language:
Slovak
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Acta Judaica Slovaca
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (2002) 51-78
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses to what extent the German crimes against Jews in Poland and Ukraine were known in Slovakia from 1939 on, and especially in 1942. Relates testimonies of Jews who managed to escape from those countries to Slovakia, who informed the Jewish communities about the massacres. There were also numerous reports by Slovak soldiers who fought in Ukraine in 1941 about the murder of local Jews in the occupied regions. Shows that senior Slovak officials were well aware of the fate of the Jews who were deported from Slovakia to Poland in 1942. The deportations were stopped not for moral reasons, but only when there were virtually no Jews left and the authorities found it difficult to fill the last three transports in 1942.
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