The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of Jews from Stropkov
1942·Stropkov
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A town in eastern Slovakia, seat of a Hasidic court, Stropkov sees its Jews gathered in the square and taken to transit camps, from where they are delivered to convoys.
Stropkov, a small town in Zemplín at the foot of the Carpathians, was a Hassidic center whose rabbinical court drew worshippers from across the region. The community maintained its schools, its synagogue, and its ritual slaughterhouse there, and the town lived to the rhythm of its markets. The spring of deportations swept away the Jews of Stropkov and the surrounding villages: gathered by the Slovak authorities, they were transported to transit camps and then handed over at the northern border. The convoys departed toward the extermination centers; the community never reconstituted itself.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Slovaquie
Ladislav Lipscher, Die Juden im slowakischen Staat ; Yad Vashem, base des communautés.