Grave of Karl and Athanasius Krems in memory of the deported and murdered family members/Sinti*zze

In the middle of the 19th century, the Krems family came to Oberalm, where they were granted the right of residence. As members of the Sinti people, they traveled throughout all of Europe, yet family members of multiple generations repeatedly returned to Oberalm, which is why the graves of Karl (†1916) and Athanasius (†1934) are also located at the Oberalmer cemetery. Under the Nazi regime, Roma and Sinti were systematically persecuted in Salzburg, and from 1939 onwards, they were first interned under extremely harsh conditions on the grounds of the Trabrennbahn in Parsch and later in the barracks of the forced labor camp Salzburg-Maxglan. The people were only allowed to leave the camp at Glanbach for forced labor, such as for the regulation of the Glan river or the construction of the autobahn, as well as for forced recruitment as film extras for the Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. In 1943, the camp was dissolved and the inmates, including several children, were deported to concentration camps—primarily to Auschwitz—and murdered. Of the 245 victims whose names are known, hardly anyone survived. Among them were also more than 60 people from the family of Krems. The municipality of Oberalm therefore decided not to dismantle the graves of Athanasius and Karl, but to preserve them as a remembrance of the Roma and Sinti persecuted and murdered by the National Socialists.