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Exhibition about Engerau camp
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…
Underground space below Slavín memorial may hold WWII museum in the future.
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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…
Háj - Nicovô in Liptovský Mikuláš
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…
Háj - Nicovô in Liptovský Mikuláš
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. 
Ukraine prepares for WWII end celebration with a military parade, too.
PRIME Minister Robert Fico will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II only in the Polish city of Gdansk, the Slovak city of Liptovský Mikuláš and Moscow.
Ivan Kamenec
“History always mingles with politics and the present,” Ivan Kamenec of the Institute of History at the Slovak Academy of Sciences said.
One of many monuments marking the Slovak National Uprising (SNP).
PEOPLE should try to avoid both idealising and demonising the Slovak National Uprising (SNP), one of the most significant events of Slovakia’s history, says Ivan Kamenec, a historian with the Slovak Academy of…
The SNP Museum in Banská Bystrica offers some unusual exhibits
HISTORICAL events of great importance are often connected with myths and the Slovak National Uprising (SNP) is no exception. Many seek to depict the uprising negatively as a communist coup that led to unnecessary…
Extremists used to meet at Jozef Tiso's grave (picture from 2007).
Read more about the Slovak state, Tiso and deportation of the thousands of Jews from Slovakia in an article retrieved from our archive.
Milan Kaliský remembers the tragedy of Kalište.
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Kalište was one of the 102 villages torched by the Nazis during the Second World War, but the only one to which life has never returned.
Jozef Tiso meeting Adolf Hitler on March 13, 1939
THE ANNIVERSARY of the founding of the Slovak wartime state is now seen by ultra-right extremist groups as an opportunity to present their beliefs in public. This year marked 70 years since the state was established…
Adolf Hitler and Jozef Tiso
Few events in Slovak history remain as controversial as the decision of the Slovak provincial assembly on March 14, 1939 to declare independence from Nazi-dominated Czecho-Slovakia.
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