This is a brilliant, mature work from a young scholar. Its maturity derives from the balance that it brings to a charged subject -- the life of Jozef Tiso, a Catholic priest who championed Slovak ...

This list is part of an ongoing investigative project the Forward first published in January 2021 documenting hundreds of monuments around the world to people involved in the Holocaust. We are ...

SOME 150 supporters of Slovakia's Nazi-puppet Second World War state gathered to celebrate the 68th anniversary of its founding at the grave of its president, the priest Jozef Tiso, in Bratislava on ...

In a scene set in a prison cell, Jozef Tiso, the priest who was Slovakia’s wartime leader, sits behind a table, a fur boa wrapped around his waist. He explains to Alfréd Wetzler, one of the authors of ...

CAKAJOVCE, Slovakia — Head bowed in reverence, Robert Svec gently placed a of blood-red flowers at the foot of the only known statue of Jozef Tiso, Slovakia’s wartime fascist leader, in a weedy ...

SLOVAKIA:Rights groups in Slovakia have lambasted one of the country's Catholic archbishops for calling the wartime rule of a pro-Nazi priest a "time of wellbeing". Archbishop Jan Sokol was referring ...

In rubber-stamp totalitarian fashion, the Parliament of Nazi-dominated Republic of Slovakia last week unanimously elected Premier Jozef Tiso, a Catholic priest, to become President of Slovakia. Dr.

One of the tragedies of World War II was the peoples caught up on the wrong side, among them Ukrainians, Croats, Balts, Hungarians and Slovaks, not to mention the Vichy French. The choices were hard.

Local council members in the Slovak village of Varin have rejected a request from state prosecutors to rename the country's sole street sign honouring Slovakia's wartime fascist leader, Monsignor ...

On Saturday, December 1, 2007 an urn containing remains from the Bratislava grave of Slovak Republic President, Monsignor Jozef Tiso 1887-1947 were brought to St.Andrew Abbey by Dr.Ludovit Pavlo MD, ...

"Here, in this place, the name of God was dishonored," Pope Francis said at a Holocaust memorial in Bratislava. During World War II, Slovakia was governed by a Nazi puppet regime, headed by Catholic ...

Slovakian Jewish and Gypsy communities have sharply criticized a Roman Catholic archbishop for praising the country’s authoritarian wartime rule by pro-Nazi priest Jozef Tiso. Archbishop Jan Sokol ...