La Shoah en Slovaquie: Destinées des survivants

Slovakia was not an occupied territory but a satellite state of Nazi Germany: its own government enacted legislation excluding Jews from society, implemented the Aryanisation of Jewish property, established labour camps, and paid the German Reich a fee for each person deported. Salner reconstructs this sequence of events through the accounts of those who experienced them — childhood in the interwar period, anti-Jewish legislation, assembly camps, deportations, the Slovak National Uprising, concentration camps, and the return home. A separate chapter addresses the ‘forgotten Holocaust’ of Jews from districts annexed by Hungary. The chapter written specifically for the French edition traces the evolution of Holocaust memory, from the Topoľčany pogrom of September 1945, through the decades of silence under communist rule, to the controversies surrounding Jozef Tiso in the 1990s. The second volume contains a glossary of the period of the Slovak State, biographical profiles of 106 witnesses with references to their respective archival identifiers in the Yale collection, maps of the network of concentration camps, and an illustrated section accompanied by scholarly commentary.