Partisan Congress riots

At a glance

Dates: From 1946.

Place: Slovakia, Slovakia.

Type: pogrom.

What came before

Background Main articles: The Holocaust in Slovakia and Postwar anti-Jewish violence in Slovakia § Causes Jews have lived in Bratislava (then known by its German name, Pressburg ) since the medieval era. Although they were expelled in 1526, Jews began to settle in the suburb of Podhradie towards the end of the seventeenth century. In the eighteenth century, Pressburg was the most influential Jewish community in the Kingdom of Hungary , with more than a thousand members. [ 1 ]

Lead-up Slovak partisans during the Slovak National Uprising After the September 1945 Topoľčany pogrom , the central Czechoslovak government in Prague pressured the autonomous Slovak government to adopt a law for the restitution of Aryanized property. [ 1 ] In May 1946, the Slovak autonomous government passed the Restitution Act 128/1946, which canceled Aryanizations in cases where the victim was judged to be loyal to the Czechoslovak state. Jews could regain their property via the court system,

What happened

The Partisan Congress riots were attacks on Jews in Bratislava and other cities and towns in the autonomous Slovak region of Czechoslovakia between 1 and 6 August 1946. Nineteen people were injured, four seriously, in Bratislava alone.