As the world observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, 80 years after the Nazis' most notorious death camp ...

With the looming threat of Nazi Expansionism and Hlinka Guards from the pro-Nazi Slovak People’s Party, Jewish survival meant confronting questions no parent, no person, should ever face ...

Matej Bel, an 18th-century polymath often hailed as the “Great Ornament of Hungary,” holds considerable historical significance. However, the latest publication celebrating his life has sparked ...

Enforced emigration from Slovakia would thus keep pace with expulsions from Bohemia-Moravia, where, according to the Protector’s organ Der Neue Tag, the number of the Jews in Prague has been ...

Members of the Banderovtzy have flooded eastern Slovakia with propaganda pamphlets aimed at the Jews. This propaganda has been sympathetically received by some members of the new Democratic Party ...

According to the museum’s website, the film “999: The Forgotten Girls” follows the story of nearly 1,000 Slovak Jewish women who were told by their government that they were embarking on a ...

Another monument will soon be added to the list of places that attract Orthodox Jews pilgriming, in the footsteps of renowned rabbi Chatam Sofer, to Bratislava. The Bratislava Self-governing region ...

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years ...

Limmud FSU aims to help Jews with roots from the former Soviet ... Costa Rica, Peru and Slovakia. Other notable speakers included Knesset member Avigdor Liberman (a native of the former Soviet ...

The same month, the first mass deportation of Jews to the camp takes place, with 69,000 from France and 27,000 from Slovakia. In May, 300,000 Jews are sent from Poland, and 23,000 from Germany and ...

“In Slovakia, we knew that people who went to Poland ... Some 6 million European Jews were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust — the mass murder of Jews and other groups before and ...