Bratislava as a Key Transit Hub for Jewish Migration, 1938–1940: Institutional and Organisational Frameworks and Migration Processes
Bratislava as a Key Transit Hub for Jewish Migration, 1938–1940: Institutional and Organisational Frameworks and Migration Processes

Summary/Abstract: Jews, whom the Nazi regime, first in Austria, then in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and finally in occupied Poland and other countries, designated as second-class citizens, became the targets of a systematic process known as the “solution of the Jewish question”. One natural response to this situation, initially encouraged and supported by several governments, was to flee or emigrate from the Nazi sphere of influence. Many inhabitants of Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia chose this path, and thousands of them passed through Bratislava. Existing scholarship provides only cursory information about the organised transports that transited through, or departed directly from, the Slovak capital between 1938 and 1940. The new research presented in this paper sheds light on previously unknown aspects of the organisation and operation of these transports.

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