The two Slovak pages belong to a single year, 1939, and to the collapse of Carpatho-Ukraine. When Hungary moved in that March, Carpathian Sich detachments fell back and crossed the frontier at Ubľa, where they laid down their arms. The Slovak authorities took them to Kamenica nad Cirochou, and from 26 June the army housed its Ukrainian refugee camp in separate barracks at Karlova Ves, then a vine-growing village on the western edge of Bratislava.123
Both remained military formations rather than relief camps. Captain Leonid Klymenko, who had commanded the body since its internment in eastern Slovakia in March, later recorded a Ukrainian camp of 500 men and 20 officers, and the appeal he wrote that summer describes a military routine at Karlova Ves Refugee Camp, a steady trickle of new arrivals from Carpathian Ukraine and Galicia, and support reaching beyond the men sleeping in the barracks.45
The evidence is thin and the pages say so. Kamianytsia Sich Camp lasted about a week before the whole body was moved to Bratislava, and no source consulted locates it within the village or describes its buildings.67
Carpathian Sich units that crossed into Slovakia at Ubľa after the Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine were taken to Kamenica nad Cirochou, where their commandant later recorded a Ukrainian camp of 500 men and 20 officers. It lasted about a week before the whole body was moved to Bratislava, and no source consulted locates it within the village or describes its buildings.
From 26 June 1939 the Slovak army housed its Ukrainian refugee camp in separate barracks at Karlova Ves, then a vine-growing village on the western edge of Bratislava. An appeal written that summer by the camp commandant records a military routine, a steady trickle of new arrivals from Carpathian Ukraine and Galicia, and support that reached beyond the people sleeping in the barracks.