Memorial at the "Schlachthaus" near Rechnitz

The association RE.F.U.G.I.U.S initiated, with the support of the community of Rechnitz, the establishment of a memorial plaque near the old slaughterhouse, close to the location where on 25 March 1945, 18 undesirable witnesses, who had to erase the traces of the mass murder of 180 Hungarian Jews at the Kreuzstadl near Rechnitz, were themselves murdered. In 1970, the mass grave near the slaughterhouse was discovered, the 18 bodies exhumed and subsequently reburied on the Jewish cemetery in Graz. The design and concept of the memorial come from the artist Wolfgang Horwath. The memorial is positioned so that it faces the grave site, allowing observers to use a viewing slit to focus on the direction of the grave site. The entire construction has the dimensions of a door that cannot be opened, through which one can, however, look.