Žiar nad Hronom
(known during WWII as Kríž nad Hronom) Historical background On 17.10.1944, after accusing the Šarkőzy family of helping partisans, the…
Category: SLOVAKIA
Zvolen
Historical background Between March 29 and April 1, 1945, after the front of war passed through Zvolen, six mass graves…
Vráble
Historical background Thirty Roma from Vráble and the surrounding area were deported to Dachau. Later the women were transported to…
Tisovec (district Rimavská Sobota)
Historical background On November 20, 1944 Gypsies were deceived by the provocateurs claiming to be partisans. As a result, 78…
Slatina (district Levice)
Historical background At the end of 1944, the fighting for the village of Slatina, which lay on the demarcation line,…
Nemecká
Historical background In Nemecka, there was a forced labour camp for calcination of limestone. Between 4 and 11 January 1945,…
Lutila (district Žiar nad Hronom)
Historical background 46 Gypsies from Lutila, falsely accused of cooperating with partisans, were shot in Dolny Turček on November…
Ilija (district Banska Štiavnica)
Historical background On November 22, 1944, the Germans captured 109 Gypsies, led them to Kremnička and killed them (19 men,…
Hanušovce nad Topľou
Historical background The so-called pracovné útvary that existed in the Slovak Republic in the 1940s were temporary, summer formations of…
Dunajska Środa
Historical background In 1945, in reaction to the approaching front of war, fascists and the so-called nyilašovci (Hungarian nationalists) killed…
Dúbravy (district Detva)
Historical background On December 6, 1944, Germans arrested 15 Gypsies (men), who were shot and buried in the Jewish cemetery…