Slovak President Pellegrini Calls for End to Hatred at Holocaust Remembrance Event in Poprad

Slovak President Peter Pellegrini delivered a speech calling for an end to hatred and dehumanization in public discourse during a Holocaust remembrance ceremony in Poprad. The event commemorated the first transport of Jews from Slovakia during World War II. Pellegrini, who leads the centrist Hlas party and serves as Slovakia's head of state, used the solemn occasion to address contemporary concerns about rising intolerance in public debate. The ceremony in Poprad, a city in northern Slovakia, marked one of the darkest chapters in Slovak history when the wartime Slovak state collaborated with Nazi Germany in the deportation of its Jewish population to concentration camps.