November 1938 A frontier town of the Slovak StatePohraničné mesto Slovenského štátu

On 2 November 1938 the First Vienna Award, dictated by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, handed the southern edge of Slovakia to Hungary. The new line ran only a few kilometres south of Trebišov, through the railway junction at Michaľany; the town itself stayed on the Slovak side and woke up as a border post with its nearest neighbours in another country. In March 1939 what was left of Slovakia became the Slovak State, a country whose independence was granted by Hitler and whose foreign policy was made in Berlin. Trebišov spent the whole war inside it.2. novembra 1938 odovzdala prvá viedenská arbitráž, nadiktovaná nacistickým Nemeckom a fašistickým Talianskom, južný okraj Slovenska Maďarsku. Nová hranica viedla len pár kilometrov južne od Trebišova, cez železničný uzol Michaľany; samo mesto zostalo na slovenskej strane a zobudilo sa ako pohraničná stanica, ktorej najbližší susedia boli zrazu v inom štáte. V marci 1939 sa zo zvyšku Slovenska stal Slovenský štát — krajina, ktorej samostatnosť povolil Hitler a ktorej zahraničnú politiku robili v Berlíne. Trebišov v ňom prežil celú vojnu.