The following is a list of massacres that have been occurred in the territory of today's Slovakia (numbers may be approximate):
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Černová massacre | October 27, 1907 | Csernova, Austria-Hungary (today part of Ružomberok, Slovakia) | 15 | 52 injured. Perpetrators were gendarmes of Kingdom of Hungary, firing into a crowd of Slovak people gathering for the consecration of the local Catholic church[1] |
| Prešporok Massacre | February 12, 1919 | Prešporok, First Czechoslovak Republic (de facto) (today Bratislava, Slovakia) | 8 | 32 severely injured. Victims were German and Hungarian protestors organised by Social Democrats, shortly after the city was occupied by Czechoslovak forces[2] |
| Nemčice massacre | 11 September 1944 | Nemčice, Slovak Republic | 53 | Perpetrated by Einsatzkommando 14. Victims were Slovak Jews, including women and children.[3] |
| Hájniky massacre | 16-17 September 1944 | Between Hájniky and Rybáre (currently Sliač), Slovak Republic | 11-12 | Perpetrated by partisans of 1st Czechoslovak brigade "M. R. Štefánik". Among the murdered was also a priest and member of Slovak parliament, Anton Šalát.[4] |
| Sklené massacre | 21 September 1944 | Sklené, Slovak Republic | 187 | Perpetrated by 3rd company of 8th troop of 1st Czechoslovak partisan brigade of J. V. Stalin, mostly of Slovak ethnicity. German inhabitants of Sklené were loaded to freight train and afterwards murdered and buried in mass grave near the village.[5] |
| Martin massacre | 3 October 1944 | Turčiansky Svätý Martin, Slovak Republic | 48 | Perpetrated by Einsatzkommando 14. Victims were murdered because of their actual or alleged involvement in partisan warfare.[3] |
| Kľak Valley Massacre | 21 January 1945 | Kľak and Ostrý Grúň, Slovak Republic | 148 | Soldiers of German anti-partisan unit Abwehrgruppe 218 (Edelweiss) and paramilitary Heimatschutz have perpetrated a massacre of villagers of two villages for their alleged help to partisans. Afterwards they burned down both villages.[6] |
| Devínska Nová Ves massacre | 10 June 1945 | Devínska Nová Ves, Third Czechoslovak Republic | 42 | German prisoners of war were murdered by the soldiers of Red Army while being transported on the train to the USSR as a retaliation for the death of Soviet soldier.[7] |
| Kolbasov massacre | 6 December 1945 | Kolbasov, Third Czechoslovak Republic | 15 | Victims were Slovak Jews who survived the Holocaust. Perpetrators unknown, Ukrainian Insurgent Army blamed.[8][9]: 161 |
| Dunajská Streda massacre | March 25, 1999 | Dunajská Streda, Slovakia | 10 | 3 armed men stormed a bar and shot dead 10 members of a mafia that terrorized Dunajská Streda.[10] |
| Bratislava shooting | August 30, 2010 | Devínska Nová Ves, Bratislava, Slovakia | 8 | 17 injured[11] |
| 2022 Bratislava shooting | October 12, 2022 | Staré Mesto Bratislava, Slovakia | 3 | 1 injured[12] |
See also
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edit- ^ "Černová Massacre Day". ENRS. 1907-10-27. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ^ Vodicka, Ľuboš (2 October 2022). "Krvavá streda v Prešporku - Ľuboš Vodička - (blog.sme.sk)". Sme (in Slovak). Retrieved 7 February 2024.
- ^ a b Šindelářová 2013, p. 592.
- ^ Moravčík, Roman (2008-03-13). "Michal Golcbár. Partizán alebo obyčajný lúpežný vrah?". HNonline.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ^ "21. september 1944. Masaker v Sklenom". Ústav pamäti národa (in Slovak). Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ^ Lacko, M.: Slovenské národné povstanie 1944 (The Slovak National Uprising of 1944). Bratislava, Slovart, 2008, p. 177
- ^ "Dev.Nová Ves, Slovakia". World War II Memorials / Monuments on Waymarking.com. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ^ Šmigeľ, Michal (2008). "Vraždy Židov na severovýchodnom Slovensku v roku 1945 - kolbasovská tragédia: Súčasný stav spracovania a perspektívy výskumu problematiky" [Murders of Jews in northeastern Slovakia in 1945: the Kolbasov tragedy: the current state and future outlook of research on the topic]. In Vrzgulová, Monika; Richterová, Daniela (eds.). Holokaust ako historický a morálny problém v minulosti a v súčasnosti [The Holocaust as a historical and moral problem of the past and the present]. Bratislava: Ševt. pp. 181–191. ISBN 978-8096985722.
- ^ Lônčíková, Michala (2020). "The end of War, the end of persecution? Post-World War II collective anti-Jewish violence in Slovakia". History in Flux. 1 (1): 151–164. doi:10.32728/flux.2019.1.8.
- ^ REFRESHER. "Ako prebehol najbrutálnejší mafiánsky masaker na Slovensku? Dvaja muži zavraždili 10 mafiánov po deviatich rokoch boja o mesto". refresher.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2020-04-21.
- ^ Balogová, Beáta (2010-09-01). "Shooting massacre shakes Slovakia". spectator.sme.sk. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ^ Petit Press a.s. (2022-10-18). "Bratislava shooting reclassified as terrorism". spectator.sme.sk. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
Bibliography
- Šindelářová, Lenka (2013). "Einsatzgruppe H na povstaleckém Slovensku" (PDF). Soudobé dějiny (in Czech). XX (4): 582–603. doi:10.51134/sod.2013.039. ISSN 1210-7050.