December 20, 2005
The Slovak Institute of National Memory has begun publishing information on anti-Jewish measures introduced by the country's fascist regime in World War II. Information publicly available for the first time includes the names of more than 10,000 Jewish-owned companies that were liquidated. The head of the institute, Jan Langos, said Slovaks would be able to see the names of “Aryanizers” who implemented Nazi Germany’s policy of economic exclusion of Jews and confiscation of their property. There will also be detailed information about each Jew persecuted by the state on the website www.upn.gov.sk. About 70,000 Slovak Jews were sent to Nazi extermination camps during World War II, where most of them died. The confiscated Jewish property made up 38 per cent of the national wealth of wartime Slovakia, Langos said.
