 Restored train car used to transport Slovak Jews. | |
| Date | 1942 and 1944–1945 |
|---|---|
| Location | Slovak Republic, General Governorate, Nazi Germany |
| Target | Slovak Jews |
| Organised by | Slovak Republic, Nazi Germany |
| Deaths | 57,000 (1942) 10,000 (1944–1945) Total: 67,000 |
During the Holocaust, most of Slovakia's Jewish population was deported in two waves—in 1942 and in 1944–1945. In 1942, there were two destinations: 18,746 Jews were deported in eighteen transports to Auschwitz concentration camp and another 39,000–40,000[a] were deported in thirty-eight transports to Majdanek and Sobibór extermination camps and various ghettos in the Lublin district of the General Governorate. A total of 57,628 people were deported; only a few hundred returned. In 1944 and 1945, 13,500 Jews were deported to Auschwitz (8,000 deportees), with smaller numbers sent to the Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück, Bergen-Belsen, and Theresienstadt concentration camps. Altogether, these deportations resulted in the deaths of around 67,000 of the 89,000 Jews living in Slovakia.
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