Monuments for the Victims of Stein

Immediately next to the entrance of the cemetery in Stein is a memorial for the victims of the massacre on April 6, 1945. The exhumation of the murdered began in January 1950, and their burial lasted eleven days, during which the city remained in black mourning. Only the identity of 112 out of 321 bodies could be determined, although their names are not mentioned on the memorial.

No more than ten meters away, a commemorative stone, erected by the Polish government in 2015, draws attention to members of a Polish resistance organization. They belonged to a group of more than 40 prisoners sentenced to death from the Vienna State Court, who reached the empty prison facility Stein only nine days after the massacre following a multi-day march on foot, where they were shot by members of the Waffen-SS. The non-Polish resistance fighters among these victims are not mentioned on the memorial.