The Jewish ( about 3,200 people ) and German populations substantially decreased during World War II . The 550-700 Jews from Topoľčany who survived the Holocaust and returned to their homes found themselves strangers in their native town , without property and in many cases without citizenship . Because most of the Jews in Topoľčany spoke Hungarian or German , they had declared their ethnicity in the last pre-war Czechoslovak census as Magyar or German rather than Jewish or Slovak . The Beneš decrees after World War II expelled Hungarian and German speakers , both Jews and Christians . Additionally , most of Topoľčany 's pre-war businesses had been owned by Jews , but were taken over by Slovaks during the war . The Jews that survived the war initially tried to stay and rebuild their lives , even after the Topoľčany pogrom of 24 September 1945 , but by 1949 all of the remaining Jewish population emigrated
Topoľčany pogrom
Topoľčany pogrom
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