Čierny Balog – Vydrovo
Historical background
In November 1944, the Germans captured some Olas Roma from the village of Neresnice (today part of Zvolen) in a forest. After several days of detention in a local school, on November 14 they killed men in the hamlet of Vydrovo (southern part of Čierny Balog). On the same day, they led women and children to the upper part of the Jergovska Valley (northern part of the village), where they locked them in a hut and set them on fire. Another group of Gypsy men were shot in the Štrbavô Valley and an entire settlement in the Pusté part was burned. Over 60 people were killed.
Description of commemoration
A small concrete memorial with a black stone slab, unveiled in 1969 (!). NOTE! In 2016, we found the memorial almost completely obscured by a nature trail information board and thus almost invisible from the road!
Inscriptions
„Na tomto mieste dňa / 14.11.1944 nemeckí fašisti / bestialne zavraždili / občanov cigánskeho / powodu // Čest’ ich pamiatke!”
(In this place, on November 14, 1944 German fascists bestially murdered the residents [of Čierny Balog – NG] of Gypsy origin. Let us honour their memory!)
Date of the unveiling
1969
Address
Vydrovo
Location
448.738444, 19.650806
8°44’18.4″N 19°39’02.9″E
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Materials
Zuza Kumanová, Arne B. Mann, Ma bisteren! Pripomínanie rómskeho holocaustu, Bratislava 2014, s. 31, 33.
Zuza Kumanová, Arne B. Mann, Ma bisteren, Nové poznatky o holocauste Rómov na Slovensku, Bratislava 2015, s. 24.
http://www.mecem.sk/15267/tragicke-udalosti-romov-v-ciernom-balogu-v-roku-1944
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