Memorial Cross on Jewish Cemetery in Lackenbach

On November 23, 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 admissions took place, and the number of prisoners reached around 2,300 people by autumn. Overcrowding, inadequate food supply, and lack of sanitation facilities in the camp led to an outbreak of typhus epidemic, which claimed the lives of approximately 250–300 people, often children. The dead were buried in a corner of the adjacent Jewish cemetery in Lackenbach. Survivors established five memorials for their relatives who had died in the Lackenbach camp after 1984.
The association "Cemetery of the Sinti in Lackenbach" initiated in 1997 the construction of a memorial cross at the southeast corner of the cemetery, which had been purchased by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in 1985. The memorial cross was officially inaugurated in 2017.