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The Danube barracks to Karlova Ves, June 1939

Danube barracks, Bratislava → Karlova Ves barracks, Bratislava

The Slovak military moved the Ukrainian refugee camp into separate barracks at Karlova Ves on 26 June 1939, naming Captain Leonid Klymenko commandant and the platoon commander Yurko Meshko quartermaster and adjutant. The camp kept receiving people: Sich members released from Hungarian camps, transports of Ukrainians expelled from Carpathian Ukraine, then workers, peasants and young men avoiding the Hungarian army. On 12 July it supported 180 people.

April and May 1939

Sich members reach Bratislava singly and in groups, with transports of Ukrainians expelled from Carpathian Ukraine

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Contemporary appeal for the Ukrainian refugee camp in Bratislava

26 June 1939

The Slovak command moves the camp to separate barracks at Karlova Ves and appoints Klymenko commandant

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Contemporary appeal for the Ukrainian refugee camp in Bratislava

12 July 1939

Oleksander Hranovsky and Volodymyr Kossar visit the barracks; the camp supports 180 people that day

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Contemporary appeal for the Ukrainian refugee camp in Bratislava

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Contemporary appeal for the Ukrainian refugee camp in Bratislava