Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moving ahead about a century in musical literature, the orchestra turned to Bela Bartok's Rumanian Dances. Fascinated by the folk music of eastern Europe, the composer combed the countryside of Hungary, Rumania and Slovakia recording the songs he heard. Not content with imitating the melodies in his own music, Bartok, as he once wrote, tried to "command this musical language so completely that it becomes the natural expression of his own musical ideas." The Bach Society responded to the unique harmonies and rhythmic patterns and conveyed well the vitality Bartok found in the Rumanian villages...
...know, deportations of Jews in Hungary and Slovakia did not stop by dint of "important Allied officials" or articles in Swiss newspapers. They stopped either when there were no more Jews to deport, it became unfeasible to continue deportation or when the war ended. The plight of the Jews was not exactly an important concern of the Allies...
...early April of 1944, two Slovakian Jews who were prisoners in the extermination camp of Auschwitz achieved one of the only successful escapes from the camp in its history. Together they walked from southern Poland where the camp was located to Slovakia. Their self-imposed mission was to warn Slovakian and Hungarian Jews that the cattle trains which the Nazis would soon order them to board would take them, not to resettlement farms in the East, but to gas chambers. One of these escapees was a 19-year-old former student who had been a prisoner in Auschwitz for nearly...
Vrba submitted an extensive and highly detailed report on Auschwitz to Zionist leaders in Slovakia and Hungary and implored them to warn the nearly one million Jews in the two countries of their impending destruction. But--in one of the great tragedies of the Second World War and one of the few cases of clear-cut collaboration between the Nazis and the Jews--the Zionist leaders failed to warn the victims and attempted to suppress Vrba's report. In return for this service, Adolf Eichmann, the administrator of the deportation process, allowed about 1600 people, largely wealthy Jews, relatives...
After my escape from Auschwitz, I went to a small town in Slovakia in which several thousand Jews still lived. I asked the Rabbi of the community if I could speak in the synagogue on a Friday evening to warn the congregants that they were to be gassed in Auschwitz and that they must not report to the trains for deportation. The Rabbi said he would consider my request and while I waited for his answer I stood outside the temple and smoked a cigarette. He came out of the building and told me that a Jew who smokes...