Memorial plaque for Jewish citizens of the community of St. Andrä im Lavanttal

In the Generationenpark St. Andrä in the Lavanttal, a memorial plaque for the Jewish citizens of the community was unveiled in September 2022. The metal stele commemorates the married couple Lothar and Hildegard Auerbach, who in 1936 with their three children came from Silesia to Carinthia. They ran a remote farm in Schaßbach near St. Andrä and employed the apprentice Gerhard Gadiel there. With the "Anschluss" in 1938, the farm was seized, Lothar Auerbach and Gerhard Gadiel were arrested during the November pogrom and sent to Gestapo detention in Klagenfurt, from where they were deported to the concentration camp Dachau. After his release from Dachau, Lothar Auerbach was able to go to England with his wife and the three children, the family survived the Holocaust. Gerhard Gadiel, on the other hand, was later arrested again, deported to the east, and murdered.