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Partisan Congress riots

1946 anti-Jewish riots in Slovakia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Partisan Congress riots were attacks on Jews in Bratislava and other cities and towns in the autonomous Slovak region of Czechoslovakia between 1 and 6 August 1946. Nineteen people were injured, four seriously, in Bratislava alone.

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The public source identifies “Partisan Congress riots” as 1946 anti-Jewish riots in Slovakia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Partisan, Congress and riots.

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This entry incorporates text from “Partisan Congress riots” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.