The history of the Jews in Slovakia goes back to the 11th century, when the first Jews settled in the area. [3] In the 14th century, about 800 Jews lived in Bratislava, the majority of them engaged in commerce and money lending. In the early 15th century, a Jewish cemetery was established at Tisinec and was in use until 1892. [4]

Out of 89,000 Jews in the country in 1940, an estimated 69,000 were murdered in the Holocaust. After the September 1938 Munich Agreement, Slovakia unilaterally declared its autonomy within Czechoslovakia, but lost significant territory to Hungary in …

Dec 11, 2024 · Slovakia today is home to about 2,600 Jews, the majority of whom live in Bratislava, the capital, with smaller Jewish communities in Košice, Presov, Piestany, and Nowy Zamky.

By the middle of the eighteenth century there were several fairly large Jewish communities in Slovakia, some with populations in the hundreds. As Jews resettled Slovakia, an interesting encounter occurred between Jewish ethnicities and cultures.

Jews concealed their Jewishness, built new lives, and maintained the official silence surrounding Jewish history and the Holocaust. The 1990s saw a revival of Jewish life across post-Communist Europe… Today, there are about 3,000 Jews living in Slovakia.

In 2007, Slovakia's foremost Jewish scholar Maros Borsky formally launched the Slovak Jewish Heritage Route, a tourist and educational trail that links two dozen key sites in all eight regions of the country.

Before the war, 135,000 Jews (4.5% of the total population) lived within the boundaries of contemporary Slovakia. Today there remain no more than some 4,000 Jews, mainly elderly. Of this greatly reduced community, 1,000 live in Bratislava.

Slovak-Jewish relations, an important factor in the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, were influenced in no small part by events that took place in the latter third of the 19th century. That century saw the national awakening of oppressed nations.

Before World War II, 135,000 Jews lived in Slovakia. After the Slovak Republic proclaimed its independence in March 1939 under the protection of Nazi Germany, Slovakia began a series of measures aimed against the Jews in the country, first excluding them from the military and government positions.

Profoundly affected by the Holocaust, the Jewish population of Slovakia was further diminished by emigration in the immediate postwar period (1945–1949) and again after political upheavals in 1968. On 17 November 1989, Slovakia marked the fiftieth anniversary of a brutal clampdown on Czech university students by Nazi authorities.