Slovakia to Commemorate 74 Years since Introduction of Jewish Code

Slovakia is due to commemorate the Day of the Victims of the Holocaust and of Racial Violence on September 9. Constitutional officials will lay wreaths and flowers at the Holocaust Memorial on Rybne Square in Bratislava. On September 9, 1941, the government of the wartime Slovak State issued a 'Regulation on the Legal Status of the Jews', known as the Jewish Code. It was a comprehensive set of legislation that initiated a special legal regime for Jewish citizens, stripping them of their civil rights. The deportation of Jewish citizens to death camps followed a year later. The code, developed according to Nazi legislation on Jews, was one of the toughest anti-Jewish legal measures in Europe.