March of the Living commemorates first deportation of Jewish women from Slovak spa town

A March of the Living ceremony took place to commemorate the deportation of dozens of Jewish women and girls from the Slovak spa town of Piešťany to Nazi concentration camps on March 23, 1942. The deportation marked the first transport of death from the town during the Holocaust. The commemoration honors the victims of one of the earliest systematic deportations of Slovak Jews during World War II, when Slovakia was a client state of Nazi Germany and participated in the Holocaust through its own deportation program that ultimately sent approximately 75,000 Slovak Jews to their deaths.