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Red poppies became a symbol of the end of WWI.
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 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.
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.
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.
This regularly updated feature on Slovakia's World War II museums includes a memorial village and an abandoned fortress.
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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The ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the Slovak capital was attended by politicians, but also diplomats.
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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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
ANNIVERSARIES are much more about the present than the past, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to use the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II to bolster patriotism at home as Russia and its…
REMEMBERING the victims of World War II and what they fought for was among the main messages spread during events held across Slovakia in early May to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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- 2. News digest: New travel rules become effective, more foreigners can sign up for vaccination
- 3. Slovakia should prepare for the first heat wave
- 4. Presidents, prime ministers and even the pope. The world is coming to Bratislava again
- 5. How to travel to and from Slovakia during COVID-19
- 6. Mass events, border crossing and vaccinated people. Several anti-pandemic rules change of Monday
- 7. Prices of houses grew at record-breaking pace globally, Slovakia in top five
- 8. President Čaputová met with Biden, he appreciated Slovakia’s progress
- 9. Strict Slovak-Austrian border controls scrapped
- 10. The Danube embankment in Petržalka will change its look
- 1. Mass events, border crossing and vaccinated people. Several anti-pandemic rules change of Monday
- 2. Instead of love, "garden gnomes" cause uproar in a Slovak UNESCO town
- 3. How to travel to and from Slovakia during COVID-19
- 4. Prices of houses grew at record-breaking pace globally, Slovakia in top five
- 5. The Danube embankment in Petržalka will change its look
- 6. Slovakia should prepare for the first heat wave
- 7. News digest: Another Covid strain detected in Slovakia
- 8. Foreigners without Slovak public health insurance can now register for a Covid jab
- 9. News digest: New travel rules become effective, more foreigners can sign up for vaccination
- 10. Every Irish village has a Gaelic football team. So does Bratislava
- 1. Strict Slovak-Austrian border controls scrapped
- 2. How to travel to and from Slovakia during COVID-19
- 3. Mass events, border crossing and vaccinated people. Several anti-pandemic rules change of Monday
- 4. Prices of houses grew at record-breaking pace globally, Slovakia in top five
- 5. News digest: Only a test needed for travel from neighbouring EU countries to Slovakia
- 6. Instead of love, "garden gnomes" cause uproar in a Slovak UNESCO town
- 7. The Danube embankment in Petržalka will change its look
- 8. News digest: Another Covid strain detected in Slovakia
- 9. Coronavirus in Slovakia: 49 new cases confirmed (graphs)
- 10. Slovakia should prepare for the first heat wave