In early January 1945, the German Einsatzkommando and members of the Slovak pro-Nazi Hlinka Guard Storm Troops murdered hundreds of people in a lime kiln in the village of Nemecká, about 25 km northeast of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. Most of the victims were Jewish citizens born in Czechoslovakia, Austria and Hungary. The murdered were supposed to vanish without a trace, as if they had never exi...