Holocaust

A special train was dispatched from Poprad railway station to Auschwitz, Poland on Friday in anticipation of the 70th anniversary of the first transport of Jewish women from Slovakia to the Nazi concentration camp on March 25, 1942

Another 17 Slovaks will be awarded with the title 'Righteous among the Nations', which is given to non-Jews who helped save the lives of Jewish people during WWII, the Israeli Embassy informed media.