List of Holocaust transports from Slovakia

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In the political crisis that followed the September 1938 Munich Agreement,{{sfn|Rajcan|Vadkerty|Hlavinka|2018a|p=843}} the conservative, ethnonationalist Slovak People’s Party{{sfn|Hutzelmann|2018|p=19}}{{sfn|Paulovičová|2018|p=5}} unilaterally declared a state of autonomy for Slovakia within Czechoslovakia. Slovak Jews, who numbered 89,000 in 1940, were targeted for persecution. In November 1938, 7,500 Jews (impoverished or without Slovak citizenship) were deported to the Hungarian border. Although they were allowed to return within a few months, these deportations were a rehearsal for those to follow in 1942.{{sfn|Rajcan|Vadkerty|Hlavinka|2018a|pp=843–844}}{{sfn|Johnson|2005|p=316}}

On 14 March 1939, the Slovak State declared independence with German support. Many Jews lost their jobs and property due to Aryanization, which resulted in large numbers of them becoming impoverished. This became a pressing social problem for the Slovak government, which it "solved" by deporting the unemployed Jews. Slovakia initially agreed with the German government to deport 20,000 Jews of working age to German-occupied Poland, paying Nazi Germany 500 Reichsmarks each (supposedly to cover the cost of resettlement). However, this was only the first step in the deportation of all Jews, because deporting workers while leaving their families behind would worsen the economic situation of the remaining Jews.{{sfn|Rajcan|Vadkerty|Hlavinka|2018a|pp=843, 845–847}}{{sfn|Longerich|2010|pp=324–325}}

In the meantime, Nazi Germany had been working towards the Final Solution—the murder of all the Jews that it could reach. In 1939, the Lublin District in German-occupied Poland was set aside as a "Jewish reservation". In 1942 it became a reception point for Jews from Nazi Germany and Slovakia. Starting in late 1941, the Schutzstaffel (SS) began planning for the deportation of the Jews in Lublin to the Operation Reinhard death camps—Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka—to free up space for the Slovak and German Jews.{{sfn|Longerich|2010|pp=294–295}}

{{see also|The Holocaust in Slovakia#Deportations}}

File:Linda Reich Auschwitz Album.jpg , and other prisoners sort belongings confiscated from Jews deported from Carpathian Ruthenia, 1944]]

The original deportation plan, approved in February 1942 by the German and Slovak governments, entailed the deportation of 7,000 single women aged 16–35 to Auschwitz and 13,000 single men aged 16–45 to Majdanek as forced laborers.{{sfn|Longerich|2010|pp=324–325}}{{sfn|Büchler|1996|p=301}} The cover name for the operation was Aktion David.{{sfn|Kamenec|2007|p=217}}{{sfn|Oschlies|2007}} The SS officer and Judenberater (adviser on Jewish issues) Dieter Wisliceny and Slovak officials promised that deportees would not be mistreated and would be allowed to return home after a fixed period.{{sfn|Büchler|1996|p=302}} Initially, many Jews believed that it was better to report for deportation than risk reprisals against their families for failing to do so.{{sfn|Bauer|2002|pp=177–178}} However, 3,000 of the 7,000 women who were supposed to be deported refused to report as ordered. Methods of escape included sham marriages, being sent away to live with relatives, or being hidden temporarily by non-Jews. The Hlinka Guard struggled to meet its targets;{{sfn|Büchler|1991|pp=302–303}} as a result, only 3,800 women and 4,500 men were deported during the initial phase of deportations.{{sfn|Longerich|2010|p=325}} Nevertheless, they opened "a new chapter in the history of the Holocaust" because the Slovak women were the first Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz. Their arrival precipitated the conversion of the camp into an extermination camp.{{sfn|Büchler|1996|pp=306–307}}

Department 14, a subsidiary of Slovakia's Central Economic Office, organized the transports,{{sfn|Bauer|1994|p=66}} while the Slovak Transport Ministry provided the cattle cars.{{sfn|Hilberg|2003|p=777}}{{sfn|Ward|2013|p=230}} Members of the Hlinka Guard, the Freiwillige Schutzstaffel (FS) and the gendarmerie were in charge of rounding up the Jews, guarding the transit centers, and eventually loading them into overcrowded cattle cars for deportation.{{sfn|Rajcan|Vadkerty|Hlavinka|2018a|p=847}}{{sfn|Ward|2013|p=230}} Transports were timed to reach the Slovak border near Čadca at 04:28.{{sfn|Nižňanský|Rajcan|Hlavinka|2018c|p=874}}{{efn|Transports left Patrónka,{{sfn|Rajcan|2018b|p=855}} Poprad,{{sfn|Rajcan|2018d|p=879}} and Nováky in the evening,{{sfn|Rajcan|Vadkerty|Hlavinka|2018a|p=847}} and Žilina at 03:20.{{sfn|Rajcan|2018f|p=889}}}} In Zwardon at 08:30, the Hlinka Guard turned the transports over to the German {{lang|de|Schutzpolizei}}.{{sfn|Hutzelmann|2018|p=32}}{{sfn|Rajcan|Vadkerty|Hlavinka|2018a|p=847}}{{sfn|Silberklang|2013|p=294}} The transports would arrive in Auschwitz the same afternoon{{sfn|Ghert-Zand|2020}} and at Majdanek the next morning.{{sfn|Silberklang|2013|p=294}}

On 25 March 1942, the first transport train left Poprad at 20:00.{{sfn|Rajcan|2018d|p=879}}{{sfn|Büchler|1996|p=304}} Before its departure, Wisliceny spoke to the deportees on the platform, saying that they would be allowed to return home after they finished the work that Germany had planned for them. The first deportees were unaware of what lay ahead and tried to be optimistic. According to survivors, songs in Hebrew and Slovak were sung as the first two transports of women to Auschwitz left the platforms.{{sfn|Büchler|1996|pp=304–305}} Most of the Slovak Jewish women deported to Auschwitz in 1942 who survived the war were from the first two transports in March, because they were younger and stronger.{{sfn|Büchler|1996|p=308}} Those from eastern Slovakia were especially likely to be young, because most Jews from that area were Haredim and tended to marry young: more than half were aged 21 or younger. The women deported from Bratislava were older on average because they married later in life and some did not marry at all; only 40 percent were 21 or younger.{{sfn|Büchler|1996|p=304}}

File:Fragment listy transportowej z Żiliny do Sobiboru czerwiec 1942.jpg, 14 June 1942]]

SS leader Reinhard Heydrich visited Bratislava on 10 April 1942. He and Vojtech Tuka agreed that further deportations would target whole families and eventually remove all Jews from Slovakia.{{sfn|Longerich|2010|pp=325–326}}{{sfn|Kamenec|2007|pp=222–223}} Ostensibly, the change was to avoid separating families, but it also solved the problem of caring for the children and elderly family members of able-bodied deportees.{{sfn|Ward|2013|p=230}} The family transports began on 11 April and took their victims to the Lublin district.{{sfn|Longerich|2010|pp=325–326}}{{sfn|Kamenec|2007|pp=222–223}} This change disrupted the SS's plans in the Lublin district. Instead of able-bodied male Slovak Jews being deported to Majdanek, the SS needed to prepare space for Slovak Jewish families in the region's overcrowded ghettos.{{sfn|Longerich|2010|p=325}} The transports from Slovakia were the largest and longest of all the deportations of Jews to the Lublin District.{{sfn|Silberklang|2013|p=294}}

The trains went through two railway distribution points, in Nałęczów and Lublin, where they were met by a ranking SS officer. In Lublin, there was usually a selection and able-bodied men were selected for labor at Majdanek, while the remainder were sent to ghettos along the rail lines. For the trains that went through Nałęczów, the Jews were dispatched to locations seeking forced labor, usually without separating families.{{sfn|Silberklang|2013|p=295}} Most of the trains brought their victims (30,000 in total){{sfn|Hilberg|2003|p=785}} to ghettos whose inhabitants had been recently deported to the Bełżec or Sobibór death camps,{{sfn|Longerich|2010|p=325}} as part of a "revolving door" policy in which foreign Jews were brought in to replace those murdered.{{sfn|Silberklang|2013|pp=299, 301}} The final transports to the Lublin district occurred during the first half of June 1942; ten transports stopped briefly at Majdanek, where able-bodied men (generally those aged 15–50) were selected for labor; the trains continued to Sobibór, where the remaining victims were murdered.{{sfn|Longerich|2010|pp=325–326}}{{sfn|Büchler|1991|pp=159, 166}}

The victims were given only four hours warning to prevent them from escaping. Beatings and forcible beard shaving were commonplace, as was subjecting Jews to invasive searches to uncover hidden valuables.{{sfn|Sokolovič|2013|pp=346–347}} Although some guards and local officials accepted bribes to keep Jews off the transports, the victim would typically be deported on the next train.{{sfn|Kamenec|2011b|p=107}} Others took advantage of their power to rape Jewish women.{{sfn|Sokolovič|2013|p=347}} Jews were only allowed to bring {{convert|50|kg}} of personal items with them, but even this was frequently stolen.{{sfn|Nižňanský|2014|p=66}} Official exemptions were supposed to keep Jews from being deported, but local authorities sometimes deported exemption holders.{{sfn|Paulovičová|2012|p=305}}

Most groups stayed only briefly in the Lublin ghettos before they were deported again to the death camps, while a few remained in the ghettos for months or years.{{sfn|Longerich|2010|pp=325–326}}{{sfn|Silberklang|2013|p=296}} Several thousand of the deportees ended up in the forced-labor camps in the Lublin area (such as Poniatowa, Końskowola, and Krychów).{{sfn|Büchler|1991|pp=159, 161}} Unusually, the deportees in the Lublin area were quickly able to establish contact with the Jews remaining in Slovakia, which led to extensive aid efforts.{{sfn|Büchler|1991|p=160}} However, the fate of the Jews deported from Slovakia was ultimately "sealed within the framework of Operation Reinhard", along with that of the Polish Jews.{{sfn|Büchler|1991|p=153}} Of the estimated 8,500 men who were deported directly to Majdanek, only 883 were still alive by July 1943.{{sfn|Longerich|2010|p=325}}{{sfn|Büchler|1991|p=159}} (Another few thousand Slovak Jews were deported to Majdanek following the liquidation of ghettos in the Lublin district, but most of them were murdered immediately.){{sfn|Büchler|1991|p=159}} The remaining Slovak Jews at Majdanek were shot during Operation Harvest Festival; the only significant group of Slovak Jews to remain in Lublin district was a group of about 100 at the Luftwaffe camp in Dęblin–Irena.{{sfn|Büchler|1991|pp=159–160}}

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File:KZ Sereď - Holocaust-Museum - Transportwaggon.jpg (Slovak Railways).{{sfn|Oschlies|2007}}]]

A moratorium on transports to the east was imposed on 19 June 1942 due to military campaigns on the Eastern Front. The rest of the family transports (eight in total) were therefore directed to Auschwitz. The first arrived on 4 July,{{sfn|Longerich|2010|pp=333–334}} which led to the initial selection on the ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, which became a regular event. The majority of deportees—especially mothers with children—were not chosen for forced labor and instead were killed in gas chambers.{{sfn|Büchler|1996|p=313}}{{sfn|Longerich|2010|pp=326, 345}} By 1 August, most of the Jews not exempt from deportation had already been deported or had fled to Hungary to avoid the deportations, leading to a six-week halt in the transports.{{sfn|Bauer |1994|p=97}} An additional three trains departed for Auschwitz in September and October.{{sfn |Kamenec |2007|p=247}}

For the first three months after the arrival of the first transport in March, Slovak Jewish women were the only female Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz.{{sfn|Büchler|1996|p=308}} In mid-August, most of the Slovak Jewish women at Auschwitz were transferred to Auschwitz II-Birkenau,{{sfn|Büchler|1996|p=308}} which was still under construction. Conditions were much worse;{{sfn|Büchler|1996|p=313}} employed mostly on outdoor labor details, most of the women died within the first four months at Birkenau.{{sfn|Büchler|1996|p=309}} Along with backbreaking physical labor and starvation, many died in epidemics of typhus or malaria and the mass executions ordered by the SS to contain the epidemics. (To contain a typhus epidemic in October 1942, the SS murdered 6,000 prisoners—mostly Slovak Jewish women—including some who were healthy; another selection on 5 December eliminated the last major group of Slovak Jewish women in Birkenau.){{sfn|Büchler|1996|pp=313–314}} Of the 404 men who were registered on 19 June, only 45 were still alive six weeks later.{{sfn|Friling|2006|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=GLM0MF5ZPrQC&pg=PT113 113]}} By the end of 1942, 92% of the deportees had died. This left only 500 or 600 Slovak Jews still alive at Auschwitz and its subcamps{{sfn|Hutzelmann|2018|p=34}}{{sfn|Büchler|1996|pp=309, 322}}—about half of whom had obtained privileged positions in administration which allowed them to obtain the necessities for survival.{{sfn|Büchler|1996|p=316}}

Between 25 March and 20 October 1942, about 57,700{{efn|Estimates include 57,628{{sfn|Rajcan|Vadkerty|Hlavinka|2018a|p=847}} and 57,752.{{sfn|Hradská|1996|p=82}}}} Jews (two-thirds of the population) were deported.{{sfn|Bauer|1994|p=69}}{{sfn|Kamenec|2011a|p=189}} Sixty-three of the deportation trains from Slovakia were organized by Franz Novak.{{sfn|Browning|2007|p=381}} The deportations disproportionately affected poor, rural, and Orthodox Jews; although the Šariš-Zemplín region in eastern Slovakia lost 85 to 90 percent of its Jewish population, Žilina reported that almost half of its Jews remained after the deportation.{{sfn|Ward|2002|p=584}} The deportees were held briefly in camps in Slovakia before deportation; 26,384 from Žilina,{{sfn|Rajcan|2018f|p=889}} 7,500 from Patrónka,{{sfn|Rajcan|2018b|p=855}} 7,000 from Poprad,{{sfn|Rajcan|2018d|p=879}} 4,160{{sfn|Danko|2010|p=13}} (or 4,463){{sfn|Nižňanský|Rajcan|Hlavinka|2018e|p=882}} from Sereď, and 4,000 to 5,000 from Nováky.{{sfn|Nižňanský|Rajcan|Hlavinka|2018c|p=876}} Eighteen trains with 18,746 victims{{sfn|Hilberg|2003|p=785}} went to Auschwitz, and another thirty-eight transports (with 39,000 to 40,000 deportees){{efn|name=Lublin|Estimates include 39,006 (Katarína Hradská),{{sfn|Hradská|1996|p=82}} 39,875 (Gila Fatran), 39,883 (Yehoshua Büchler),{{sfn|Silberklang|2013|p=296}} or 39,899 passengers (Laura Crago{{sfn|Crago|2012a|p=608}} and Janina Kiełboń). The exact number is unknown and impossible to determine due to discrepancies in the sources. For example, some Jews died or committed suicide before they were deported or during transport and were not counted consistently.{{sfn|Silberklang|2013|pp=296–297}}}} went to ghettos and concentration and extermination camps in the Lublin district.{{sfn|Büchler|1991|p=151}}{{sfn|Rajcan|Vadkerty|Hlavinka|2018a|p=847}} Only a few hundred (estimated at 250{{sfn|Rothkirchen|2001|p=598}} or 800{{sfn|Ward|2013|p=235}}) survived the war.{{sfn|Rajcan|Vadkerty|Hlavinka|2018a|p=847}}{{sfn|Kamenec|2002|p=130}} Czech historian Daniel Putík estimates that only 1.5 percent (around 280 people) of those deported to Auschwitz in 1942 survived, while the death rate of those deported to the Lublin region approached 100 percent.{{sfn|Putík|2015|p=47}}

Attempts by Germany and Slovak People's Party radicals to resume the transports in 1943 were unsuccessful due to the opposition of Slovak moderates and were followed by a two-year hiatus.{{sfn|Rajcan|Vadkerty|Hlavinka|2018a|p=848}}{{sfn|Longerich|2010|pp=404–405}}

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{{see also|The Holocaust in Slovakia#Resumption of deportations}}

File:Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, 1944 (Auschwitz Album) 3a.jpg in 1944 (from the Auschwitz Album)]]

Increasing Slovak partisan activity triggered a German invasion on 29 August 1944. The partisans responded by launching a full-scale uprising. The insurgents seized a large portion of central Slovakia but were defeated by the end of October.{{sfn|Rajcan|Vadkerty|Hlavinka|2018a|p=849}} Einsatzgruppe H, one of the SS death squads, was formed to deport or murder the estimated 25,000 Jews remaining in Slovakia.{{sfn|Fatran|1996|pp=99, 101}} Einsatzgruppe H was aided by local collaborators, including SS-Heimatschutz, Abwehrgruppe 218, and the Hlinka Guard Emergency Divisions.{{sfn|Fatran|1996|p=101}}{{sfn|Putík|2015|pp=41–42}} Most of the Jews who were exempted from the 1942 deportations lived in western Slovakia,{{sfn|Hradská|1996|p=90}} but following the invasion many fled to the mountains.{{sfn|Fatran|1996|p= 99}}

Slovak historian Ivan Kamenec estimated that 13,500 Jews were deported, of whom 10,000 died,{{sfn|Rajcan|Vadkerty|Hlavinka|2018a|p=849}}{{sfn|Kamenec|2007|p=337}}{{sfn|Ward|2002|p=589}} but Israeli historian Gila Fatran and Czech historian Lenka Šindelářová consider that 14,150 deportees can be verified and the true figure may be higher.{{sfn|Šindelářová|2013|p=82}}{{sfn|Fatran|1996|p=119}} Of these, between 6,734 and 7,936 were deported to Auschwitz{{sfn|Putík|2015|p=47}} and another 5,000 to Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, and Theresienstadt. From Slovakia, Ravensbrück received transports totaling 1,600 women and children (mostly Jews) and 478 male prisoners, including Jews, Romani people, and political opponents. About 1,550 to 1,750 men (mostly Jews) were deported to Sachsenhausen, while about 200–300 people were deported from Sereď to Bergen-Belsen, especially Jews in mixed marriages and some intact families of Jews. Between 1,454 and 1,467 Jews were deported to Theresienstadt, especially the elderly, orphans, and women with young children.{{sfn|Putík|2015|p=203}} About 200 or 300 Slovak political prisoners were deported to Mauthausen on 19 January and 31 March 1945.{{sfn|Putík|2015|pp=45, 47}} Many of those deported to the concentration camps in Germany were sent onwards to satellite camps, where they worked mostly in war industries.{{sfn|Putík|2015|p=199}} On four transports from Sereď, selections were carried out at the camp with different cars being directed to Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbrück, and/or Theresienstadt.{{sfn|Putík|2015|p=203}} Many details of the transports are unknown, because much of the documentation was destroyed by the perpetrators, requiring historians to rely on survivor testimonies.{{sfn|Fatran|1996|p=116}}{{sfn|Kamenec|2007|p=337}}{{sfn|Putík|2015|pp=197, 212}}

An estimated 10,000 of the deportees died.{{sfn|Kamenec|2007|p=337}} The mortality rate was highest on the transports to Auschwitz in September and October, because there was a selection and most of the deportees were immediately murdered in the gas chambers. The death rate of those deported to concentration camps in Germany was around 25–50 percent. Of those deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, however, 98 percent survived.{{sfn|Putík|2015|pp=47, 212}} The high death rate at concentration camps such as Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrück was due to the exploitation of forced labor for total war and inmates were murdered based on their inability to work, rather than their race or religion. Others died during the death marches.{{sfn|Putík|2015|pp=209–210}} Between several hundred{{sfn|Rajcan|Vadkerty|Hlavinka|2018a|p=849}} and 2,000{{sfn|Fatran|1996|p=119}}{{sfn|Ward|2013|p=253}} Jews were killed in Slovakia, and about 10,850 survived to be liberated by the Red Army in March and April 1945.{{sfn|Fatran|1996|p=119}}{{sfn|Kamenec|2007|p=341}}

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• {{cite encyclopedia |editor1-last=Miron |editor1-first=Gai |editor2-last=Shulhani |editor2-first=Shlomit |title=The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust |date=2009 |publisher=Yad Vashem |location=Jerusalem |volume =2|isbn=978-965-308-345-5 |ref={{sfnref|Yad Vashem|2009}} |language=en|entry=Opole|pages=550–552}}

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• {{cite journal |last1=Büchler |first1=Yehoshua|author-link=Yehoshua Büchler |title=The deportation of Slovakian Jews to the Lublin District of Poland in 1942 |journal=Holocaust and Genocide Studies |date=1991 |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=151–166 |doi=10.1093/hgs/6.2.151 |language=en |issn=8756-6583 }}
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• {{cite journal |last1=Fatran |first1=Gila |title=Die Deportation der Juden aus der Slowakei 1944–1945 |trans-title=The deportation of the Jews from Slovakia 1944–45 |language=de |journal=Bohemia: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Böhmischen Länder |date=1996 |issue=37 |pages=98–119 |url=https://biblio.hiu.cas.cz/documents/19854 |access-date=14 December 2019 |archive-date=17 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117225411/https://biblio.hiu.cas.cz/documents/19854 |url-status=live }}
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• {{cite thesis |degree=PhD |last1=Paulovičová |first1=Nina |title=Rescue of Jews in the Slovak State (1939–1945) |date=2012 |url=https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/e8340da1-7b46-40cc-95e1-d57665a23e34 |doi=10.7939/R33H33 |institution=University of Alberta |location=Edmonton |access-date=17 December 2019 |archive-date=21 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121214804/https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/e8340da1-7b46-40cc-95e1-d57665a23e34 |url-status=live }}
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• {{cite encyclopedia |last=Crago|first=Laura|entry=Lublin Region (Distrikt Lublin)|pages=604–609|title=Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe|series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 |volume=2|editor1-last=Geoffrey P. |editor1-first=Megargee|editor1-link=Geoffrey P. Megargee|editor2-last=Dean|editor2-first=Martin|editor2-link=Martin C. Dean|date=2012a|location=Bloomington|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |isbn=978-0-253-00202-0 |language=en }}
• {{cite encyclopedia |last=Crago|first=Laura|entry=Chełm|pages=623–626|title=Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe|series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 |volume=2|editor1-last=Geoffrey P.|editor1-first=Megargee |editor2-last=Dean|editor2-first=Martin|date=2012b|location=Bloomington|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |isbn=978-0-253-00202-0 |language=en }}
• {{cite encyclopedia |last=Crago|first=Laura|entry=Irena (Dęblin–Irena)|pages=636–639|title=Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe|series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 |volume=2|editor1-last=Geoffrey P.|editor1-first=Megargee |editor2-last=Dean|editor2-first=Martin|date=2012c|location=Bloomington|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |isbn=978-0-253-00202-0 |language=en }}
• {{cite encyclopedia |last1=Kuwałek|first1=Robert|author-link=Robert Kuwałek |last2=Dean|first2=Martin|entry=Izbica|pages=639–643|title=Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe|series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 |volume=2|editor1-last=Geoffrey P.|editor1-first=Megargee|editor2-last=Dean|editor2-first=Martin|date=2012|location=Bloomington|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |isbn=978-0-253-00202-0 |language=en }}
• {{cite encyclopedia |last=Crago|first=Laura|entry=Końskowola|pages=654–657|title=Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe|series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 |volume=2|editor1-last=Geoffrey P.|editor1-first=Megargee |editor2-last=Dean|editor2-first=Martin|date=2012e|location=Bloomington|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |isbn=978-0-253-00202-0 |language=en }}
• {{cite encyclopedia |last=Kuwałek|first=Robert |entry=Lubartów|pages=672–674|title=Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe|series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 |volume=2|editor1-last=Geoffrey P.|editor1-first=Megargee |editor2-last=Dean|editor2-first=Martin|date=2012g|location=Bloomington|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |isbn=978-0-253-00202-0 |language=en }}
• {{cite encyclopedia |last=Crago|first=Laura|entry=Łuków |pages=678–682|title=Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe|series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 |volume=2|editor1-last=Geoffrey P.|editor1-first=Megargee |editor2-last=Dean|editor2-first=Martin|date=2012h|location=Bloomington|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |isbn=978-0-253-00202-0 |language=en }}
• {{cite encyclopedia |last=Crago|first=Laura|entry=Miedzyrzec Podlaski|pages=684–688|title=Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe|series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 |volume=2|editor1-last=Geoffrey P.|editor1-first=Megargee |editor2-last=Dean|editor2-first=Martin|date=2012i|location=Bloomington|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |isbn=978-0-253-00202-0 |language=en }}
• {{cite encyclopedia|last1=Crago|first1=Laura |last2=White|first2=Joseph Robert|entry=Opole|pages=688–691|title=Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe|series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 |volume=2|editor1-last=Geoffrey P.|editor1-first=Megargee|editor2-last=Dean|editor2-first=Martin|date=2012|location=Bloomington|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |isbn=978-0-253-00202-0 |language=en }}
• {{cite encyclopedia |last=Dean|first=Martin |entry=Rejowiec|pages=703–705|title=Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe|series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 |volume=2|editor1-last=Geoffrey P.|editor1-first=Megargee |editor2-last=Dean|editor2-first=Martin|date=2012|location=Bloomington|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |isbn=978-0-253-00202-0 |language=en }}

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• {{cite encyclopedia |last1=Rajcan |first1=Vanda |entry=Bratislava/Patrónka|editor1-last=Megargee|editor1-first=Geoffrey P. |editor2-last=White|editor2-first=Joseph R.|editor3-last=Hecker|editor3-first=Mel |series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos |volume=3 |title=Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany |isbn=978-0-253-02373-5|location=Bloomington |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |date=2018b|pages=854–855}}
• {{cite encyclopedia|last1=Nižňanský |first1=Eduard |last2=Rajcan |first2=Vanda |first3=Ján |last3=Hlavinka |entry=Nováky|editor1-last=Megargee|editor1-first=Geoffrey P. |editor2-last=White|editor2-first=Joseph R.|editor3-last=Hecker|editor3-first=Mel |series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos |volume=3 |title=Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany |isbn=978-0-253-02373-5|location=Bloomington |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |date=2018c|pages=874–877|translator-last=Kramarikova|translator-first=Marianna}}
• {{cite encyclopedia |last1=Rajcan |first1=Vanda |entry=Poprad|editor1-last=Megargee|editor1-first=Geoffrey P. |editor2-last=White|editor2-first=Joseph R.|editor3-last=Hecker|editor3-first=Mel |series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos |volume=3 |title=Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany |isbn=978-0-253-02373-5|location=Bloomington |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |date=2018d|pages=878–880}}
• {{cite encyclopedia|last1=Nižňanský |first1=Eduard |last2=Rajcan |first2=Vanda |first3=Ján |last3=Hlavinka |entry=Sereď|editor1-last=Megargee|editor1-first=Geoffrey P. |editor2-last=White|editor2-first=Joseph R.|editor3-last=Hecker|editor3-first=Mel |series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos |volume=3 |title=Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany |isbn=978-0-253-02373-5|location=Bloomington |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |date=2018e|pages=881–883|translator-last=Kramarikova|translator-first=Marianna}}
• {{cite encyclopedia |last1=Rajcan |first1=Vanda |entry=Žilina|editor1-last=Megargee|editor1-first=Geoffrey P. |editor2-last=White|editor2-first=Joseph R.|editor3-last=Hecker|editor3-first=Mel |series=Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos |volume=3 |title=Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany |isbn=978-0-253-02373-5|location=Bloomington |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |date=2018f|pages=889–890}}

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• {{cite news |last1=Ghert-Zand |first1=Renee |title=First transport of Jews to Auschwitz was 997 young Slovak women and teens |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-first-auschwitz-transport-was-of-997-young-slovakian-jewish-women-and-teens/ |access-date=4 January 2020 |work=Times of Israel |date=2 January 2020 |archive-date=9 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609023652/https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-first-auschwitz-transport-was-of-997-young-slovakian-jewish-women-and-teens/ |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |last1=Oschlies |first1=Wolf [de] |title=Aktion David — Deportation von 60.000 slowakischen Juden |trans-title=Aktion David—Deportation of 60,000 Slovak Jews |url=https://www.zukunft-braucht-erinnerung.de/aktion-david-vor-65-jahren-wurden-aus-der-slowakei-60-000-juden-deportiert/ |website={{ill|Zukunft braucht Erinnerung|de}} [Future needs Memory] |access-date=13 December 2019 |language=de |date=12 April 2007 |archive-date=24 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024232305/https://www.zukunft-braucht-erinnerung.de/aktion-david-vor-65-jahren-wurden-aus-der-slowakei-60-000-juden-deportiert/ |url-status=live }}

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• {{cite book |last1=Macadam |first1=Heather Dune |title=999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz |date=2019 |publisher=Kensington Publishing Corporation |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8065-3936-2 |language=en}}

• {{cite news |last1=Cuprik |first1=Roman |title=We were joking before the trip, women from the first transport to Auschwitz recall |url=https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20494128/we-were-joking-before-the-trip-women-from-the-first-transport-to-auschwitz-recall.html |work=The Slovak Spectator |date=27 March 2017 |language=en |access-date=14 December 2019 |archive-date=25 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325203759/https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20494128/we-were-joking-before-the-trip-women-from-the-first-transport-to-auschwitz-recall.html |url-status=live }}
• [https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?SourceId=22182 List of Slovak Jews deported to Lublin District ghettos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629161417/https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?SourceId=22182 |date=29 June 2021 }}

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