Ústredňa Židov

  • Jewish Center
  • UZ
Identifier
434
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

Founded in 1940

History

The Ustredna Zidov was the Slovakian version of the Judenrat, and headed by Heinrich Schwartz. The Ustredna Zidov established Novaky, a labor camp, in the hope of saving Jews through ‘work as a means of rescue’. The Working Group broke with the Center when deportations began in 1942-03.

Sources

  • Dictionary of the Holocaust : Biography, geography, and terminology / E.J. Epstein and P. Rosen. – Westport, 1997. – p. 319