A kettős kereszt árnyékában
In the Shadow of the Double Cross

Anti-Jewish Legislation and Persecution of Jews in Slovakia 1938–1945

Author(s): Tamás Lang
Subject(s): Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Keywords: Slovakia; 1938–1945; persecution of Jews; Holocaust; anti-Jewish laws; deportations; survivors' ordeals; difficulties of reintegration
Summary/Abstract: This book presents the background, course, and consequences of the Holocaust in Slovakia. Slovakia was the only country in Europe that voluntarily used its own resources to deport Slovak Jews to the death camps, while paying the German Reich for every Jew deported. The author draws on archival and contemporary press sources, as well as on the literature on the subject, to describe this process, while at the same time also touching on its Hungarian aspects. When describing the tragedy of Slovak Jewry, he does not confine himself to the end of the war, but also addresses the question of the reintegration of the surviving Jews into society and the resurgence of anti-Jewish sentiment in Slovakia after the war.

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