After the Uprising’s Collapse
Following the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising in late 1944, Nazi units, aided by Slovak collaborators such as the Hlinka Guard Emergency Divisions and local police, carried out targeted round‑ups of Jews who had survived earlier deportations, exemptions, or hiding. Einsatzgruppe H coordinated mass arrests across towns and rural areas, often with the assistance of informants. Between September 1944 to March 1945, roughly 13,500 Jews were deported; around 8,000 were sent to Auschwitz, while others were transported to camps including Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück, Bergen‑Belsen, and Theresienstadt. Most were murdered soon after arrival through selections, gas chambers, forced labour, starvation, or death marches. These transports destroyed the last remnants of Jewish communal life in Slovakia.
„Einsatzgruppe H of the Security Police and SD, whose duties included rounding up and killing or deporting the remainder of the Slovak Jews, accompanied the Wehrmacht into Slovakia. Between September 1944 and the end of the year, German units deported approximately 12,600 Slovak Jews, most of them to Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, and other camps in Germany.“
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
“The Holocaust in Slovakia” encyclopedia entry (2023)
Further Reading / Sources
EHRI Portal – Slovakia: Archival guides on 1944 deportation operations
Nation’s Memory Institute – “Holocaust in Slovakia”
Concise documentation including the 1944 wave