The Antisemitism Policy in Slovakia and the Interventions of the Kingdom of Sweden between 1942 and 1944/45 Aimed at Rescuing in Favour of the Jews in Slovakia This article describes a largely unknown Swedish effort to intervene in the depo...
There were two couples of Jewish people who managed to escape from the Auschwitz–Birkenau concentration camp, all the four had successfully managed to get to Slovakia in 1944. The story of Alfréd Wetzler and Rudof Vrba is well known. But, o...
The deportations were a direct reaction of the Slovak autonomous government on the Vienna arbitration. A few weeks after autonomy was achieved and HSĽS established a government in Slovakia, it came to a foreign policy defeat, which question...
The position of helper or rescuer of Jews is only held by an “ordinary” Slovak man, who, ignoring the anti-Semitic policy of his own state, is trying to help his Jewish fellow citizen. In this regard he stands against his “own state”. The p...