Translation of
Pinkas ha-kehilot; entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min hivasdam
ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet ha-olam ha-sheniya: Slovakia

Edited by Yehoshua Robert Buchler

Co-edited by Ruth Shachak

Editor of the maps and photographs: Aryeh Fatran

Published by Yad Vashem

Published in Jerusalem 2003

We also wish to ackowledge the significant contribution
of Ada Holtzman z”l to this project.

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Pinkas Hakehilot

Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities

SLOVAKIA

Editor: Yehoshua Robert Buchler

Co-Editor: Ruth Shachak

Editor of the maps and photographs: Aryeh Fatran

This book was published with the assistance of the Gold family in Canada and Israel,
in the loving memory of their family members from Czechoslovakia who lost their lives in the Shoah:
Joseph, Eva, Gisi, Elizabeth and Egon Birnbaum; Dorothy (née Birnbaum) and Karl Roth;
Chayim, Yosef-Shalom, Sara, Renate, Moshe Tov-Yehia, and Abraham-Pinchas Goldberger.

Hebrew
ISBN 965-308-178-0

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Printed in Israel 2003
at Ahava Cooperative Press, Jerusalem