Memorial Cross on Jewish Cemetery in Lackenbach

On 23 November 1940, the largest "Gypsy Detention Camp" in Austria was established in a former Esterházy estate farm in Lackenbach. During the early summer of 1941, mass arrests took place and the number of prisoners reached about 2,300 people by autumn. Overcrowding, inadequate nutrition, and lack of sanitary facilities in the camp led to an outbreak of a typhus epidemic, which claimed the lives of approximately 250–300 people, many of them children. The dead were buried in a corner of the adjacent Jewish cemetery in Lackenbach. Survivors erected five memorials for their relatives who had died in the Lackenbach camp after 1984.

The association "Cemetery of the Sinti in Lackenbach" initiated the construction of a memorial cross at the southeastern corner of the cemetery, which had been purchased in 1985 by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde. The memorial cross was officially inaugurated in 2017.