Memorial for NS Victims in Deutsch Jahrndorf

On the main street in Deutsch Jahrndorf there is a memorial for the victims of National Socialism in the community. For the initiative and creation, the two former teachers Erich Zechmeister and Konrad Schneider are responsible. From screws and springs of railway sleepers, a memorial was crafted, showing the form of a shofar, the horn of a ram, which was blown during the Jewish New Year festival. On the memorial there are metal plaques with the names of the National Socialist victims from Deutsch Jahrndorf. Maria Meidlinger and Ludwig Nagy were murdered in the killing facility Hartheim near Linz in 1940 as part of the „NS-Euthanasia“. In addition, the members of the Jewish family Perl, Josef, Elisabeth, Tibor, Flora and Theresia, who fled from the community to Hungary in 1938 and were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau and in the concentration camp Stutthof in 1944, are remembered.