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type: CorporateBody
sources: Dictionary of the Holocaust : Biography, geography, and terminology / E.J. Epstein and P. Rosen. – Westport, 1997. – p. 319
date: Founded in 1940
has or had agent name: Jewish Center
has or had agent name: UZ
history: The Ustredna Zidov was the Slovakian version of the Judenrat, and headed by Heinrich Schwartz. The Ustredna Zidov established Novaky, a labor camp, in the hope of saving Jews through ‘work as a means of rescue’. The Working Group broke with the Center when deportations began in 1942-03.
name: Ústredňa Židov