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Vyhne labor camp

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ105425034 ↗
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Vyhne was a labor camp in the Slovak Republic that existed from 1940 to 1944. Several hundred Slovak jews were prisoners.

References

Nižňanský, Eduard (2011). "Contribution on the History of the Third Protectorate Transport to Nisko after Coming to Slovakia" (PDF). Historica - Review in History and Related Sciences. 2 (2): 151–167.

Nižňanský, Eduard; Rajcan, Vanda (2018). "Vyhne". In Megargee, Geoffrey P.; White, Joseph R.; Hecker, Mel (eds.). Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vyhne labor camp” 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.