Parliamentary Chair Peter Pellegrini, left, Slovakia's President Andrej Kiska and Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico, right, cut a ribbon during the opening ceremony of the Holocaust museum in Sered, Slovakia. (Lukas Grinaj/TASR via AP)
Slovakia Opens Holocaust Museum in Former Nazi Camp
The Sered concentration camp in Slovakia. (Yad Vashem)
Slovakia’s president and prime minister have opened the country’s first Holocaust museum at a site of a former Nazi labor and concentration camp.
Andrej Kiska and Robert Fico inaugurated the museum at a ceremony Tuesday in the western town of Sered.
Fico said: “We are obliged to document the tragedy of the Slovak Jews.”
Slovakia was a Nazi puppet state during World War II. It sent over 70,000 of its Jews to Nazi concentration camps, where most of them perished and only has a tiny Jewish community today.
After the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918, Slovakia became part of Czechoslovakia, which split peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.
By: AP
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