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10. • Trunk, Isaiah. JUDENRAT; THE JEWISH COUNCILS IN EASTERN EUROPE UNDER NAZI OCCUPATION. New York, Macmillan 1972. 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo, xxxv, 664 pages, illustrations, 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Jewish councils--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century. Jews--Europe, Eastern--Politics and government. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). In scarce jacket. Edgewear to jacket. Very good conditon in good jacket. (HOLO2-34-62) (ID #10694) $45.00.



Nitra


Nitra

Visitor Information

Informácie pre návštevníkov

Location / Lokalita:

Pri synagóge, Nitra

GPS: 48°18'41.50"N, 18°5'10.50"E

Mailing address / Poštová adresa:

Nitriansky informačný systém (NISYS)

Štefánikova trieda 1

949 01 Nitra

Contact details / Kontaktné údaje:

Tel.: +421-37-16 186, +421-37-741 0906

E-mail: info@nitra.sk

www.nitra.sk

Synagogue

The synagogue was built in 1908-1911

for the Neolog Jewish community.

It was designed by Lipót (Leopold)

Baumhorn (1860-1932), the prolifi c

Budapest-based synagogue architect.

The building is a characteristic example

of Baumhorn’s style. A mélange of

Moorish, Byzantine and Art Nouveau

elements, it faces the street with a twotower

façade. The sanctuary is a domed

hall supported by four pillars that also

support the women’s gallery. After

more than a decade of painstaking restoration

by the municipality of Nitra,

the building is now used as a center

for cultural activities. The women’s

gallery houses The Fate of Slovak Jews

– Slovakia’s national Holocaust memorial

exhibition. The synagogue serves

as a permanent exhibition space for

graphic works by the Nitra-born Israeli

artist Shraga Weil.
 
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SERED

The Jewish community of Sereď traced its origin to refugees


fl eeing Uherský Brod after a pogrom in 1683. The

community reached its peak during the nineteenth century,

when it joined the Orthodox movement. In 1880, some

1,354 Jews made up about 27 percent of the town’s entire

population of 5,004. Local Jews were active in business and

they also owned the local sugar refi nery. During World War

II one of the three labor camps set up for Jews in Slovakia

was established here. Internment at the camp saved about

500 Slovak Jews from deportation. The camp was also, however,

used as a transit center for Jews being sent to death

camps in 1942 and 1944-1945. The last deportation left for

Terezín in March 1945. Plans are currently under way to establish

a large educational center and Holocaust memorial

museum here.
Vermes, Gabor. "The Slovak Dilemma in Austria-Hungary." Slovakia 25, no. 48 (1975): 105-17.

TISO, JOZEF


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Submit ContributionTiso, JozefJozef Tiso, (born Oct. 13, 1887, Velká Bytča, Austria-Hungary [now in Slovakia]—died April 18, 1947, Bratislava, Czech.), Slovak priest and statesman who fought for Slovak autonomy within the Czechoslovak nation during the interwar period and headed the German puppet state of independent Slovakia (1939–45) until he was overthrown by the Red Army and Czechoslovak Partisans at the end of World War II.



Becoming a prominent member of Andrej Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party after World War I, Tiso was a member of the Czechoslovak government from 1927 to 1929 and succeeded Hlinka as party leader in 1938. On Oct. 6, 1938, he became premier of autonomous Slovakia in the new federal Czechoslovakia, assuming the presidency after his country, under Adolf Hitler’s sponsorship, declared its independence (1939) to forestall annexation by Hungary.



Throughout World War II, though closely supervised by Germany, Tiso’s authoritarian government retained a degree of freedom of action, but it collapsed with the arrival of the Red Army in April 1945. He was tried and convicted for treason, suppression of freedom, and crimes against humanity and was executed in 1947.












Jelinek, Yeshayahu. "Dr. Jozef Tiso and His Biographers." East Central Europe 6, no. 1(1979): 76-84.



Murin, Karol. "Eight Fatal Days in the Life of Dr. Joseph Tiso." Slovakia 7, no. 1 (March 1957): 13-18. April 1945.



Sutherland, Anthony X. Dr. Jozef Tiso and Modern Slovakia. Cleveland, Ohio: First Catholic Slovak Union, 1978. 141p.



Sutherland, Anthony X. "Jozef Tiso and Modern Slovakia." PhD diss, Ohio State University, 1972.



Sutherland, Anthony X. "Tiso's Formative Years and Early Political Career." Slovakia 24, no. 47 (1974): 24-35.