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Memorial plaque on the church wall of the Martin's Church in Deutsch Schützen

01/01/1995 – 12/31/1995

Gedenktafel an Kirchenmauer der Martinskirche in Deutsch Schützen (©Nora Brettl)

Gedenktafel an Kirchenmauer der Martinskirche in Deutsch Schützen (©Nora Brettl)

Gedenktafel an Kirchenmauer der Martinskirche in Deutsch Schützen (©Nora Brettl) · CC-BY-NC-4.0 · gams.uni-graz.at

In September 1995, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the outer wall of the Martin's Church in Deutsch Schützen, commemorating the Jewish victims who were shot in the Urbarial Forest in March 1945.

In the community of Deutsch Schützen, approximately 500 Hungarian Jewish forced laborers were held for the construction of the Southeast Wall from December 1944. Shortly before the arrival of the Red Army, on 29 March 1945, members of the local Hitler Youth received an order from the leader of the construction section to lead the forced laborers in small groups near the Martin's Church, east of Deutsch Schützen. There, SS men took over the prisoners, led them into the nearby forest, and began executions. After the shooting of about 60 men, the massacre was halted. The bodies of the victims were buried in the forest and were only rediscovered in August 1995, based on the statements of the survivor Moshe Zairi.

Translation · AI tier 7

Sources

  • DERLA — Gedenktafel an Kirchenmauer der Martinskirche in Deutsch Schützen (8dfef41d-f6c3-4d3b-8c0a-37f5d0a1126d) — DERLA — Gedenktafel an Kirchenmauer der Martinskirche in Deutsch Schützen

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  • Spatial accuracy: 4 — Accurate

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Winzerstraße, 7474 Deutsch Schützen

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Karte: © OpenStreetMap-Mitwirkende, OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA), SRTM

Coordinates (WGS84)47.16448° N, 16.43986° E

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