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The Holocaust in Slovakia was the systematic dispossession, deportation, and murder of Jews in the Slovak State, a client state of Nazi Germany. Out of 89,000 Jews in the country in 1940, 68,000 to 71,000 were murdered during the Holocaust. In 1939 the ruling ethnonationalist Slovak People's Party declared independence from Czechoslovakia with German protection. Jews were targeted for discrimination and harassment, including the confiscation of property and businesses. On 9 September 1941, the government passed the Jewish Code, which it claimed to be the strictest anti-Jewish law in Europe. In late 1941, the Slovak government negotiated with Nazi Germany for the mass deportation of Jews to German-occupied Poland. Between March and October 1942, 58,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and the Lublin District; only a few hundred survived. The murder of Jews resumed after August 1944, when Germany invaded Slovakia and another 13,500 Jews were deported. (Full article...)
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Hi Buidhe and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:16, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for the blurb. Rewritten—postwar issues are really too complicated to get into here. Added a mention of the Jewish Code, which is the day that Slovakia commemorates the Holocaust (9 September). I think we should run it on that date, if possible. I've also replaced the image, as without a caption there's no way to note that it does not depict Slovak Jews. (t · c) buidhe 00:35, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
Discussion now ongoing at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/The Holocaust in Slovakia. (t · c) buidhe 00:45, 9 July 2020 (UTC)