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  • Adolf Hitler, Alexander von Dörnberg, and Jozef Tiso in October 1941.
    Adolf Hitler, Alexander von Dörnberg, and Jozef Tiso in October 1941.
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    The Worst Choice for ‘Greatest Slovak’

    Slovakian state TV’s nomination of Hitler ally and WWII era dictator, Jozef Tiso, as ‘Greatest Slovak’ is worrying evidence of the country’s far-right drift

    byDalibor Rohac
  • Prime Minister Robert Fico, the leader of the left-wing Smer-Social Democracy party, arrives for a press conference at party headquarters in Bratislava, Slovakia, March 6, 2016.
    Prime Minister Robert Fico, the leader of the left-wing Smer-Social Democracy party, arrives for a press conference at party headquarters in Bratislava, Slovakia, March 6, 2016.
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    Slovakia’s Ruling Party Loses Its Majority as Neo-Nazi Group Wins Seats in Parliament

    The far-right People’s Party-Our Slovakia, led by Marián Kotleba, won 8 percent of the vote, gaining 14 parliamentary seats for the first time

    byJordana Narin
  • Ladislav Rovinsky on the site where he hopes to build a Holocaust memorial in Kosice, Slovakia.(Peter Korchnak)
    Ladislav Rovinsky on the site where he hopes to build a Holocaust memorial in Kosice, Slovakia.(Peter Korchnak)
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    In Slovakia, a Citizen’s Effort To Build a Holocaust Memorial to His City’s Missing Jews

    Ladislav Rovinský isn’t Jewish—but that gives him the freedom to insist that Košice confront its wartime history

    byPeter Korchnak
  • A prayer book found in a school in the town of Bardejov.(Photographs by Yuri Dojc)
    A prayer book found in a school in the town of Bardejov.(Photographs by Yuri Dojc)
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    Gone

    Yuri Dojc, a Canadian photographer born in Slovakia, photographed abandoned prayer books in his family’s ancestral village, where he uncovered a life the Nazis destroyed and his relatives refused to discuss

    byStephanie Butnick
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