Ján Vojtaššák

[4] Vojtaššák personally signed documents for his diocese to take over the Baldovce spa from its original Jewish owners.

[3] On 15 May, parliament approved Decree 68/1942, which retroactively legalized the deportation of Jews (which had begun in March), authorized the removal of their citizenship, and regulated exemptions.

[2][8] Vatican diplomat Giuseppe Burzio wrote to Cardinal Luigi Maglione that Vojtaššák had reportedly said in a private meeting that the Church should not interfere in the Slovak State's persecution of the Jews because they were Slovakia's greatest enemies.

Pešek said that Vojtaššák's antisemitic attitudes can be explained by the fact he never traveled abroad and that in rural Slovakia many people believed that Jews were the enemy.

Based on that, his sentence was temporarily suspended, and he was placed in a de facto house arrest in Děčín.

[1] Vojtaššák wanted to return to Slovakia but the government ordered him a permanent residency in a retirement house for priests in Senohraby near Prague, where he lived until his death two years later.

[9] In 1995, Pope John Paul II suggested that Vojtaššák should be canonized, which was opposed by Israeli historians and the Slovak Jewish community.

[4][10] Jaroslav Franek, the president of the Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities in the Slovak Republic [sk], said "Bishop Vojtaššák failed morally both as a person and a politician".