Slovakia is reconsidering whether it will mint a commemorative coin of children’s book author Ludo Ondrejov after an outcry that he participated in a wartime drive to remove Jews from their jobs and confiscate their property. According to Radio Free Europe, Ondrejov was given the Jewish-owned Steiner Bookshop when it was seized, and later dismissed the Steiners as employees.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.