"The Martyrdom of the Slovak Jewry": Knowledge about Slovak Jews and the Holocaust in Slovakia in the Swedish Jewish Journal Judisk Krönika, 1938–1945

This article is an exploration of what information about the situation for Jews in the Slovak Republic was published in the Swedish Jewish journal Judisk Krönika between 1938 and 1945. Much of the information published was accurate. However, some reports came much later than the actual events and implementation of certain legislation. In other cases, information seems to have been disseminated more quickly. For example, Judisk Krönika’s article on the Jew Codex, which was implemented in early September 1941, was published in October 1941. Judisk Krönika was a nationwide journal, read by both Jews and non-Jews. As has been pointed out by previous research, Judisk Krönika steadily reported on the Holocaust and without censoring the atrocities. It can be concluded that knowledge about the Holocaust in Slovakia was readily available in Sweden during the war, and that there were conflicting depictions of the role of Slovak antisemitism.