Vandalism
On June 2, 2014, a Jewish cemetery in the Cifer village was desecrated.
On September 16, vandals desecrated a monument to St. Stefan – first King of Hungary – in Kosica. Anti-Hungarian writing was found near the Hungarian Scouts Union in Limbi.
At least 59 tombstones and monuments were vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in Namestovo on December 16, 2019. In mid-December, 22 tombstones were vandalized in the town of Rajec in northern Slovakia, the second such incident in the country. The perpetrators of it are unknown, on the fact of desecration of gravestones, local police officers opened a criminal case. Also, it is not clear if the two events were related.
The Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities of Slovakia called on all "decent citizens of Slovakia not to be silent." The World Jewish Congress and the local Slovak police supported this version, condemning the attack and calling the crime "monstrous". Despite the rarity of such events, since the Jewish communities in Slovakia have been largely spared "overly aggressive manifestations of anti-Semitism", international organizations such as the World Jewish Congress expressed their gratitude to the local authorities for investigating the attack with such seriousness.
B'nai B'rith International President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Mariashin sent a letter to Slovak Ambassador to the United States Ivan Korchok urging local authorities to investigate and find those responsible for the crime. The Slovak embassy in Washington on Monday sent a letter to leaders of B'nai B'rith International saying that Slovak police launched an investigation into an anti-Semitic incident last week when 59 tombstones were smashed at the Jewish cemetery in Namestovo, northern Slovakia near the Polish border.
