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Remains of five Czechoslovak pilots found in Netherlands last year will be buried in the country.
Five Czechoslovak pilots' bodies were found in the Netherlands.
The Greek Catholic Church of Ss Cyril & Methodius, Stropkov
There are some eerie parallels between the region's past and Ukraine's more recent travails. Andrew Giarelli
Petržalka-Kopčany
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Red poppies became a symbol of the end of WWI.
Jozef Tiso meeting Adolf Hitler on March 13, 1939
Historian: The perception of the World War II Slovak state is full of contradictions.
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An important but haunting memorial can be found in the Low Tatra Mountains not far from Banská Bystrica, in former village Kalište.
Imrich Karvaš
Imrich Karvaš was one of the most powerful men in the wartime Slovak State but he helped the popular rebellion. He ended up in the concentration camps and even the communist regime imprisoned him. Ela Rybárová
Imrich Gablech
Imrich Gablech received several Czech and foreign awards and medals. On the occasion of his 100th birthday he was promoted general.
The award is not only a big thank you gesture but also a call for everybody to forget about their comfort and think about how they can help the world become a nicer place, said the Slovak president.
Grigorij Mesežnikov
Robert Fico did not appear in the Washington Post story about European far right by accident, says political analyst and director of the Institute for Public Affairs Grigorij Mesežnikov.
The Museum of the Slovak National Uprising in Banská Bystrica.
This regularly updated feature on Slovakia's World War II museums includes a memorial village and an abandoned fortress.
President Kiska laid wreaths in Sereď.
President Andrej Kiska took part in a special TV programme commemorating the victory over fascism and Nazism, a celebration that reminds us to never give up the fight.
Slavín memorial
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The ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the Slovak capital was attended by politicians, but also diplomats.
Holocaust Museum in Sereď
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THOSE who survived and were able to return to the former work- and concentration camp in Sereď, now turned into the first Museum of Holocaust in Slovakia, agree that it should have happened long ago.
Canadian writer Kathy Kacer
THOUGH she was born in Toronto, Kathy Kacer regularly returns to Slovakia -- the place where her parents survived the Holocaust. Much more than that though, Kacer has turned their  life stories into a series of…
Black flags mark the SNP anniversary in Banská Bystrica.
SLOVAKIA commemorates the 71st anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising (SNP), one of the key moments in Slovakia’s World War II history, when rebels in the Nazi-allied Slovak state stood up to the oppressive…
Auschwitz-Birkenau, illustrative stock photo
THE VRBA-WETZLER memorial march that follows in the footsteps of the famous Auschwitz refugees who informed the world about the Jewish genocide during World War II will end in Žilina, where experts on holocaust…
Stolpersteine put in plac ein Bratislava
THE INTERNATIONAL “Stolperstein” (Stumbling Block) project featuring the placing of commemorative stones into pavements before erstwhile homes of victims of Nazi persecution came to Banská Bystrica for the fourth…
Fedor Gál
IN ONE WEEK'S TIME, the first anniversary of the Vrba-Wetzler Memorial March will commemorate Walter Rosenberg (aka Rudolf Vrba) and Alfred Wetzler, the two Slovaks who brought clear evidence about the Nazi…
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