An important but haunting memorial can be found in the Low Tatra Mountains not far from Banská Bystrica, in former village Kalište.Juro Sikora
24. nov24. Nov 2017, at 10:25
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
29. aug29. Aug 2017, at 0:01
Imrich Gablech received several Czech and foreign awards and medals. On the occasion of his 100th birthday he was promoted general.
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20. aug20. Aug 2017, at 9:30
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.
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19. aug19. Aug 2017, at 9:30
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.
Michaela Terenzani
1. feb1. Feb 2017, at 15:47
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.
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9. may9. May 2016, at 13:47
The ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the Slovak capital was attended by politicians, but also diplomats.
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5. apr5. Apr 2016, at 13:11
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.
Zuzana Vilikovská
9. feb9. Feb 2016, at 13:26
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…
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21. oct21. Oct 2015, at 15:54
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…
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31. aug31. Aug 2015, at 13:28
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…
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24. aug24. Aug 2015, at 12:35
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…
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20. aug20. Aug 2015, at 8:12
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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13. aug13. Aug 2015, at 0:08
THE JEWISH Community Museum in Bratislava has been offering different exhibitions each summer season, while being closed in winter. This year, the exhibition on a so-far unknown, or less-known concentration camp in…
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1. jun1. Jun 2015, at 13:15
THE DEFENCE Ministry is slated to create a working group along with Bratislava City Hall that will draw up a project of building a museum dedicated to the memories of WWII victims at Bratislava’s Slavín memorial and…
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19. may19. May 2015, at 6:34