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Madeline Vadkerty is a Samuel P. Mandell Fellow at Gratz College (Philadelphia, USA) in its Holocaust and Genocide studies doctoral program.  Originally from the US, she lives in Bratislava, Slovakia, where she conducts Holocaust-related research at the Slovak National Archive.

Within the context of the fascist conquest of Ethiopia, the history of the Ethiopian Jews, the Beta Israel, is significant. After the arrival of Italian troops in the 1930s, the Jewish group, which has always been divided by the Christian majority, gained special treatment. However, the regime’s attitude towards them changed due to the 1938 racial laws.