Gedenkzeichen Unterwart

On the cemetery in Unterwart there is a memorial plaque for all victims of the NS terror. Specifically, the relatives of the Roma and Sinti people are mentioned. The erection of the memorial took place in 2009 on initiative of the associations Roma-Service and Roma-Pastoral and the community of Unterwart. The first documented evidence for the settlement of Romnija and Roma in Unterwart dates back to the year 1720. In the year 1936, during a census, 205 settled Romnija and Roma were recorded in a settlement outside the village. Already shortly after the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the first Unterwarter Romnija and Roma were deported to forced labor camps. From 1939 onwards, further deportations to concentration camps took place. Only 25 of the deported Romnija and Roma from Unterwart survived the genocide.