July 8



SLOVAKIA:

Holocaust memorial unveiled


A memorial to Holocaust victims and survivors was unveiled in the western
Slovak town of Galanta.

The memorial was raised at the site of a former Jewish synagogue that was
demolished in 1976 by the then ruling communists and was unveiled by
Galanta mayor Alexander Mze and head of the local Jewish community Vojtech
Fahn.

During the second world war 1,800 local Jews were deported via a so-called
collection camp in nearby Nov Zmky. Only 300 of those returned home.

An estimated 70,000 Jews were deported in total from Slovakia to
concentration camps in Poland and Germany under the wartime state.

(source: Slovak Spectator)