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The Making of the Holocaust in Slovakia, with Prof. Hana Kubatova

Jakub Ferencik
4 min readFeb 26, 2024

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On the latest episode of “Loosely Eastern Europe,” I talk to Professor Hana Kubatova, who teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University. Her main research interests are the Holocaust and its aftermath, topographies of violence, how ideas and ideologies travel, political religions, and more.

In this episode, we talk about the role Slovakia played in the Holocaust. An important history — one we should never forget.

I know you will all benefit from Prof. Kubatova’s insights. She truly is an expert and we are lucky to be able to learn from her.

Here is a link to the interview on Spotify; and here is a link on Substack. Please let me know in the comment section if you are having difficulties accessing it.

Photo by Lāsma Artmane on Unsplash

Brief Bio

Prof. Kubatova is the author of The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938–89: Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Zionism and Nepokrades!: Nalady a Postoje Slovenske Spolecnosti k Zidovske Otazce, 1938–1945.

Her upcoming book’s previous title was Where the Foxes Say Goodnight: Christian Nationalism and the Making of the Holocaust in Slovakia. The present working title is Christian Nationalism Nation-building and the Making of the Holocaust in Slovakia. It is set to be…

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Jakub Ferencik
Jakub Ferencik

Written by Jakub Ferencik

Journalist living in Prague | Author of “Up in the Air” and “Beyond Reason” on AMAZON | MA McGill Uni | 750+ articles with 1+ mil. views

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