A far-right, fascist-nationalist political party formed by Andrej Hlinka in 1918. With the establishment of the Slovak Republic in 1939, the HSLS assumed control of the government under the leadership of Jozef Tiso. The party was closely aligned with Nazi policy and ideology.
Under Miklós Horthy, the Hungarian government enacted three anti-Jewish laws restricting Jewish participation in public life and authorizing the seizure of hundreds fo Jews for labor camps. However, the Hungarian government resisted German pressure to deport its Jewish population until Germany occupied Hungary in 1944.
A reformed Jewish congregation and synagogue. There is a Temple Sinai in Denver as well as many other cities in the USA.
A series of laws adopted by the Slovak government in 1941 that gradually made it impossible for Jews to participate in public life in Slovakia, requiring Jews to wear a badge designating their ethnicity, and authorizing their removal to labor and concentration camps.
A central European country formed from pieces of the multi-ethnic Austro-Hungarian empire at the end of WWI in 1918. In September 1938, Hitler demanded the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia along the border with Germany. This set off the partition of Czechoslovakia, as its neighboring states on all sides moved to annex parts of country. After World War II, Czechoslovakia was re-constituted as a nation until 1992.