The Story of the Jewish Community in Bratislava

The Bratislava Community After the Holocaust

Commemoration

A plaque in memory of the 15,000 Holocaust victims from Bratislava, on the façade of the prayer hall of the Orthodox cemetery in Bratislava A memorial ceremony in Bratislava for the Slovakian Holocaust victims with Holocaust survivors, representatives of the government and the city council in attendance The central Holocaust memorial in Bratislava, commemorating the Slovakian Holocaust victims Part of the central Holocaust memorial in Bratislava, commemorating the Slovakian Holocaust victims The burial grounds of the Chatam Sofer, Bratislava A memorial service for the Czechoslovakian victims of the Holocaust held in the Forest for the Martyrs of Czechoslovakia, in Israel A memorial plaque in the Forest for the Martyrs of Czechoslovakia, commemorating the Jews who died while serving in the work battalions of the Sixth Slovak Brigade A memorial plaque in the Forest for the Martyrs of Czechoslovakia

In the 1990s a museum for Jewish cultural heritage was opened in the old Jewish Quarter in Bratislava. A memorial plaque was placed inside the Orthodox cemetery, commemorating the 13,000 Jewish residents of the city who were murdered during the Holocaust. A monument in memory of the Slovakian Jewish victims of the Nazi regime was erected on the site of the former Pressburg Yeshiva in 1997.

Municipal authorities and Jewish organizations renovated the tomb of the Chatam Sofer as well as other rabbis buried in Bratislava, and opened them to the public.

Today the Jewish community in the city numbers several hundred members.

A group of former Czechoslovakian immigrants is active in Israel; every May they hold an annual memorial ceremony in the Forest for the Martyrs of Czechoslovakia.