Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

These days we commemorate a very sad anniversary. On March 25, 1942, exactly 80 years ago, the first Jewish transport to the Auschwitz concentration camp took off from the train station in the northern Slovak town of Poprad. The train carried almost one thousand young Jewish women. Edita Grosman was one of them. Her story, together with the stories of other Jewish girls from Slovakia, was depicted in a book written by Heather Dune Macadam. In the following minutes, we will hear both of them speak about this anniversary in an archive recording. But before we delve into this horrific part of our history, we will stay in, for some, horrific present, which is also connected to a war conflict. We speak to Alexy, who is a Comenius University student, currently helping his compatriots arriving to Slovakia.