Karol Kmeťko
Bishop
Bishop
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Before the [1942 deportations of Jews from Slovakia](/wiki/List_of_Holocaust_transports_from_Slovakia%231942 "List of Holocaust transports from Slovakia#1942"), Kmeťko confronted the president of the Slovak State, [Jozef Tiso](/wiki/Jozef_Tiso "Jozef Tiso"), with reliable reports of the murder of Jews in Ukraine. Kmeťko asked: "How can the government allow \[the deportations], when it is said that they carry the \[Jews] off to their death?" According to Kmeťko, Tiso replied "with something that I \[Kmeťko] could not fully accept: ‘It’s enough for me that I have assurances from the Germans that they treat \[the Jews] humanely, that they are used there as workers. For if Slovaks can go to Germany to work, why can’t the \[Jews] do the same?’"

On May 11, 1944, Kmeťko was appointed Archbishop of Nitra in Slovakia. According to the [Catholic Hierarchy](/wiki/Catholic_Hierarchy "Catholic Hierarchy"), Kmetko was a priest for 49\.5 years and a bishop for 27\.9 years. He died in December 1948 at the age of seventy\-three.


Was Kmeťko aware of the conditions in Germany where the Jews were taken?