Memorial Plaque for Murdered Jewish Forced Workers in Deutschkreutz

In November 1944, between 1,000 and 1,300 Hungarian Jewish women and Jews were brought to Deutschkreutz as part of the so-called Südostwallbau. By the end of 1944, 284 people had died due to catastrophic living and working conditions or had died as a result of mistreatment by the guards. The dead were buried in a mass grave on the Jewish cemetery. The first memorial plaque for the victims was made in 1974. As part of cemetery restoration work, on the initiative of the Misrachi Österreich association, a new memorial plaque was attached to a memorial stone.