Memorial Stone on Jewish Cemetery in Oberwart

On the Jewish cemetery in Oberwart there is a memorial stone that commemorates the deceased Jewish women and men from Großpetersdorf. Shortly after the National Socialists came to power in 1938, the expulsion of the approximately 50 Jewish residents of Großpetersdorf began. Most of them were able to leave the German Reich in time and fled largely to the USA or to Argentina. The Jewish cemetery of Großpetersdorf was destroyed by the National Socialists by selling the gravestones, transferring the remains of the Jewish women and men from Großpetersdorf to the Jewish cemetery in Oberwart, and leveling the cemetery area. Surviving family members and friends erected a memorial stone in Oberwart after 1945.