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2024 | 72 | 4 | 661 - 691

Article title

ŽIDOVSKÍ EMIGRANTI V BRATISLAVE V ROKOCH 1938 – 1940

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Title variants

EN
Jewish migrants in Bratislava in 1938–1940

Languages of publication

SK

Abstracts

EN
In the 1930s and 1940s, the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and its allied countries was mounting. The victims responded in a variety of ways, one of which was emigration. Most countries did not welcome foreign Jews and actively resisted their influx. Such was also the case of Great Britain, which was in charge of Mandatory Palestine. The strict immigration quota set by the 1939 White Paper did not deter numerous Jews from attempting a journey to Palestine, even at the risk of ending up in British internment camps. Most Jews heading to the Eastern Mediterranean travelled by ship via the so-called Danube Route, which led through Bratislava and Romania, with others voyaging through Bratislava and Vienna or Budapest to Italy or Yugoslavia. This paper deals with the Jews who travelled to Palestine through Bratislava. As early as the autumn of 1938, the city began to see a mass influx of trains carrying Jews from Brno, Vienna, and Prague. Save a few exceptions, these Jews were lodged in the Slobodáreň boarding house on Železničiarska Street and, until the end of November 1939, in the former Patrónka munitions factory, where they awaited the next leg of their journey. This paper examines the migrant‘s everyday lives and the activities of Jewish as well as non-Jewish relief organisations aiding in the emigration of thousands of persecuted Jews.

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Volume

72

Issue

4

Pages

661 - 691

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Contributors

  • Historický ústav SAV, v. v. i., Klemensova 19, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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Publication order reference

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