PoH-Code: poh.34283
Mass grave for Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers in Siegendorf
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Grabanlage für ungarisch-jüdische Zwangsarbeiter in Siegendorf (©Nora Brettl)
Grabanlage für ungarisch-jüdische Zwangsarbeiter in Siegendorf (©Nora Brettl) · CC-BY-NC-4.0 · gams.uni-graz.at
On the local cemetery of Siegendorf, there is a memorial site for Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers. On the enclosed grave, there are two memorial stones. The light-colored gravestone is unmarked, while the dark gravestone indicates two deceased individuals, Sándor and István Hajnal.
When the Red Army arrived in Siegendorf on April 1, 1945, it found 68 Jewish-Hungarian forced laborers who had died of typhus and exhaustion in the local sugar factory. At the order of Soviet officers, a burial detail had to remove these bodies and bury them in the local cemetery.
Translation · AI tier 7
Sources
- DERLA — Grabanlage für ungarisch-jüdische Zwangsarbeiter in Siegendorf (15d872c3-f270-4562-9cf5-245f8fb83633) — DERLA — Grabanlage für ungarisch-jüdische Zwangsarbeiter in Siegendorf
Evaluations
- Access (from 07/19/2026): Open access
- Spatial accuracy: 4 — Accurate
Location & map
Map position available (Point) · spatial accuracy: 4 — Accurate
Textual location description
Friedhof, 7011 Siegendorf

Coordinates (WGS84)47.77833° N, 16.54239° E