Sereď Holocaust Museum

Located on the site of a former labor and concentration camp, the Sereď Holocaust Museum exhibits documents, photographs, and artifacts related to the persecution of Jews in Slovakia during World War II.

Planning your visit

Sereď was a labour and concentration camp on Slovak soil, run first by the Slovak State — the clerical-fascist regime that governed as a German client from 1939 — and later directly by the SS. Slovakia was the first Axis satellite to deport its Jewish population, and it paid Germany a fee per person deported. Around 16,000 people passed through Sereď to Auschwitz and other camps.

The museum opened in 2016 in five surviving camp barracks, and it is the only Holocaust museum in Slovakia. Exhibits cover the persecution laws, the Aryanisation of Jewish property, the deportations, the camp's operation, and the fate of Slovak Jewry, of whom around three-quarters were murdered. A preserved deportation wagon stands on the site.

The museum confronts Slovak complicity directly, which remains contested in domestic politics, and that honesty is a large part of its significance.

Sereď is about an hour from Bratislava.

Bookable options include museum tours and Jewish heritage tours from Bratislava that include the site. Current availability is shown below.