1900–1939
Expulsion toward the Hungarian border after Vienna arbitration
2 nov. 1938·Slovaquie
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families rounded up and abandoned in no man's land
In the aftermath of the Vienna Award, which returned the southern borderlands of the country to Hungary, the autonomous government of Slovakia rounded up in the night of November 2, 1938, the Jews it considered foreign or undesirable. Entire families were loaded onto trucks, transported to the new border, and abandoned in no man's land, without shelter, in November.
Hungary refused to receive them, Slovakia refused to take them back. They camped for several weeks between two barriers before an arrangement allowed some of them to return. The roundup was the first antisemitic act of the autonomous Slovak regime, and it served as a prelude to aryanization measures and then to deportations.
- Period :
- 1900–1939
- Type :
- Expulsion
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Slovaquie
Archives du gouvernement autonome slovaque ; rapports de la communauté juive de Bratislava et presse contemporaine.