Memorial stone at former mass grave at "Skradnji Brig" in Siegendorf

In a small wooded area, about 100 meters south of the village cemetery in Siegendorf, there is a concrete enclosure with a memorial stone, which was probably erected by the Soviet administration after the liberation in 1945. It bears witness to the fact that in this area there was a mass grave for deceased Hungarian Jewish forced laborers. The victims had been employed from November 1944 until March 1945 for the construction work on the Southeast Wall and partly also in the Siegendorf sugar factory. They died as a result of the catastrophic living and working conditions as well as a typhus epidemic. An exhumation of the buried took place in 1985. Human remains of 67 bodies were recovered and reburied in the new Jewish cemetery in Eisenstadt.