The 1938 First Vienna Award and the Holocaust in Slovakia
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
1-1-2015
Abstract
The 1938 First Vienna Award obliged Slovakia to cede substantial territories to Hungary. For many Slovaks, the logic of ethnic borders transformed Jews into, or confirmed them as, "security threats," accentuating the goal of ethnic homogeneity as a defense against Hungarian irredentism. Despite the relationships between the Award and the Holocaust of Slovak Jewry, the literatures on Slovak-Hungarian relations and the Holocaust in Slovakia remain disconnected. The work presented below proposes fusing them in favor of a transnational and regional understanding of the Holocaust.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Volume
29
Issue
1
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Ward, James M.. "The 1938 First Vienna Award and the Holocaust in Slovakia." Holocaust and Genocide Studies 29, 1 (2015): 76-108. doi: 10.1093/hgs/dcv004.