Denisa Nešťáková

Denisa Neštáková is a historian focusing on 20th-century East Central Europe, far-right movements, the Holocaust and gender studies. She graduated from the Comenius University in Bratislava with a degree in General History in 2018. Denisa is currently working as a research associate at the Herder Institute while finishing her post-doctoral project “Privileged to be in Hell. Jewish Women in the Sered Camp” which has been supported by the Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. Her examination of the history of family planning resulted in her 2023 book “Be Fruitful and Multiply. Slovakia’s Family Planning under three regimes (1918–1965)”, which received the 2024 Slovak Studies Association Book Prize.

„Bratislava verabschiedet sich von der Roten Armee“: Jubelbilder von der Befreiung Bratislavas beim Abzug der Roten Armee, am 22. November 1945 aufgenommen

Background Article

The “Glory” of Liberation

Sexual violence perpetrated by the Red Army in Slovakia at the end of World War II

The genuine joy at the liberation by the Red Army from the German occupying forces in Slovakia, with cheering crowds lining the streets and women offering food, alcoholic beverages and flowers, coexisted alongside the Red Army’s criminal behaviour, which included sexual violence.