A total of 68,000 to 71,000 Slovak Jews were murdered , more than 80 percent of the prewar population . After the liberation of Slovakia by the Red Army in 1945 , it became part of the Third Czechoslovak Republic . Survivors were joined in Slovakia by 9,000 returnees from concentration camps and Hungary and 10,000 Jews from the annexed territories ; by the end of 1945 , 33,000 Jews were living in Slovakia . Many survivors had lost their entire families , and were in poor health . Jews who tried to regain stolen property faced an uphill battle , because Aryanization was legally recognized by the postwar government . Abandoned and heirless property was nationalized rather than given to Jewish organizations , as required by international law . Those who had stolen Jewish property were reluctant to return it ; former resistance members had also appropriated some stolen property , a just reward ( in their view ) for their opposition to Nazism . The two groups began an intimidation campaign to force Jews to leave and relinquish their property claims . Violent attacks also occurred ; the most severe was the September 1945 Topoľčany pogrom , in which 47 Jews were injured . At least 36 Jews were murdered and more than 100 injured in postwar violence
Topoľčany pogrom
Topoľčany pogrom
The Holocaust in Slovakia