Slovakia Remembers the Jewish Codex'
Sixty years after sending Slovakian Jews to the death camps, the republic holds its first official state memorial ceremonies for victims of the Holocaust.
On September 9, 1941, the parliament of "independent" Slovakia - a Nazi puppet state - ratified the Jewish Codex, a series of laws and regulations that stripped Slovakia's 80,000 Jews of their civil rights and all means of economic survival and in effect placed them beyond the bounds of law and society. The government press - the only press in Slovakia at the time - boasted that the Codex was even more severe than the Nazis' Nuremberg Laws.