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On relations between the Slovak majority and Jewish minority during World War II

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Title On relations between the Slovak majority and Jewish minority during World War II.
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 42,2 (2014) 47-89
Description Examines the actions and behavior of lower ranks of the national administration in the Slovak state and of the non-Jewish populace towards the Jews in three focal periods of the perpetration of the Holocaust in Slovakia: the Aryanization in 1940
the deportation to the Nazi camps in 1942
and the deportation of 1944, which occurred during the time of the Slovak National Uprising. The Aryanization (which often enriched people who had contacts with the state administration or with the Hlinka Party) created a vast "new middle class" that later passively acquiesced with the deportations. The beneficiaries of Aryanization were sometimes instrumental in the elimination of the former owners and workers of "their" businesses, but there were other Slovaks who provided Jews with exemptions from deportation, work permits, and Aryan papers, or even concealed them. Presents examples of both bad and good behavior of Slovaks during the deportations. Stresses that the deportations, even those of 1944, perpetrated mainly by the Germans, were impossible to carry out without the involvement of the Slovak administration and the Hlinka Guard. Dismisses the myth of Tiso as a "rescuer of Jews" (albeit allegedly on a modest scale). The responsibility for the deportation and death of Slovak Jews lies on the top echelons of the Slovak administration, both its moderate and radical factions. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
In English and Hebrew.
Language English
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
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