Operation Reinhardt and the deportation of Slovak Jews to the Lublin district through documents Cover Image

Akcia Reinhardt a deportácie slovenských Židov do lublinskej oblasti v dokumentoch
Operation Reinhardt and the deportation of Slovak Jews to the Lublin district through documents

Author(s): Ján Hlavinka, Michal Schvarc
Subject(s): WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Historický ústav SAV
Keywords: Holocaust; Deportations; Operation Reinhardt; Slovak state; Jews; Death camps;

Summary/Abstract: In 1942, the regime of Hlinka's Slovak People's Party deported more than 57,000 Jews to territory under the control of the Third Reich. Of these, 40,000 Jews were deported to the General Government´s Lublin District, where Operation Reinhardt, one of the biggest extermination operations of the Holocaust, was just beginning. Its central elements were Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka death camps. Therefore, the vast majority of Jews deported from Slovakia in 1942 fell victim to extermination Operation Reinhardt. The article presents a set of documents that characterize deportations of Slovak Jews to the Lublin District, as well as Operation Reinhardt itself.

  • Issue Year: 69/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 729-754
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Slovak