The Slovak Interior Ministry (Ministerstvo vnútra, MV) created the Patrónka concentration camp (officially called Koncentračné stredisko Židov Bratislava-Patrónka) on March 5, 1942. The camp was established in buildings belonging to the Asylum for Disabled Persons1 (Ústav pre zmrzačených), which was situated in an old abandoned ammunition factory in Patrónka, a suburb of Bratislava named for its manufacturing of weaponry (patróny). Much as Poprad served as a concentration and transit camp for Jews living in eastern Slovakia, Patrónka housed Jews from Bratislava and western Slovakia. As with the Poprad transit camp, Patrónka initially served as a camp for women between the ages of 16 to 45; however, over time, men and families were also detained there.2 While the Jews from Bratislava were escorted to the Patrónka camp under the supervision of the police directorate in Bratislava and the Hlinka Guard (Hlinkova garda, HG), Jews from other western Slovakian towns and districts (such as ...