Pracovna Skupina

  • Working Group
Identifier
439
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

Founded in 1942-03

History

Underground Slovakian rescue organization established in Bratislava in 1942-03 by Jewish Slovakian activists. Pracovna Skupina was led by Gisi Fleischmann and Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel. They smuggled the Pracovna Skupina was an underground Slovakian rescue organization established in Bratislava in 1942-03 by Jewish Slovakian activists. Pracovna Skupina was led by Gisi Fleischmann and Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel. They smuggled the Auschwtizprotocols to the West. The Pracovna Skupina successfully upheld a moratorium on deportations of Slovakian Jewry for almost two years by bribing Slovakian and SS officials, including a $50,000 bribe of Dieter Wisliceny.

Places

  • Founded in Slovakia, Bratislava.

Sources

  • Dictionary of the Holocaust : Biography, geography, and terminology / E.J. Epstein, P. Rosen. – Westport, 1997. – p. 335