Memorial for 27 Hungarian-Jewish Forced Workers in Feldbach

On March 25, 1945, during an air attack on a train arriving at the Feldbacher station, Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers, who had been employed in the construction of the "Südostwall," were killed. The bodies of those killed in the air attack, as well as of an additional 16 Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers, were transported by SS men and NS officials in a truck to the nearby "Russenfriedhof" near Steinberg. There, the still living had to dig a pit into which the bodies were thrown, before they themselves were shot. In 1947, an allied commission opened the mass grave and initiated an investigation. The remains of the murdered individuals were buried in a mass grave at the Jewish cemetery in Trautmannsdorf. In 1949, this grave was reopened, and some of the bodies were transferred to Budapest.