Strasshof transit camp

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The transit camp Strasshof ( Dulag ) in Strasshof on the northern railway north of Vienna served the National Socialists as a labor and internment camp until the liberation on April 10, 1945 . It was located northwest of the Strasshof train station in the vicinity of the premises of the Universale Bau and was set up for 6,000 people.

Use of the warehouse

Since opening in the spring of 1942, the camp served as a transit camp for foreign forced laborers . After a disinfection procedure, they were medically examined and recorded by the Niederdonau labor office, which was responsible for the camp. Eastern workers were initially interned and later people from all over Europe were held there. They were distributed to work in the armaments industry in the Vienna area and as workers in agriculture in regional labor camps.

The camp had an autonomous status until 1944. The community was only responsible for the burial of the deceased inmates in a mass grave in the cemetery.

From May 1944 the Eichmann Command deported a total of around 21,000 Hungarian Jews to Strasshof. While the first rail transports still arrived at Gänserndorf station and selections were made there based on ability to work, the majority of the transports that followed arrived directly at the transit camp. According to an agreement between the Committee for Help and Rescue and Adolf Eichmann , entire families were deported to Strasshof with the transports. Those who took on slave labor had to undertake to take care of those unable to work (children, old people, sick people).

After the end of the 1944 harvest season, some of the Strasshof prisoners were deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Most of them remained in the armaments industry's forced labor camps in the Vienna area, in the agricultural camps in Lower Austria, or were deployed to expand the neighboring Deutsch-Wagram air base. At the end of the war, some of the prisoners were driven towards Mauthausen concentration camp , some were taken to Theresienstadt concentration camp ; About 2000 Hungarian Jews were liberated by the Red Army in the Strasshof transit camp.

Memories of the Dulag

Memorial
  • Memorial stone to the mass grave of the slave laborers and Jews who died in the camp in the Strasshof cemetery.
  • Today grass and scrub grow over the last structural remains of the Strasshof transit camp. The citizens of the community of Strasshof erected a memorial for the victims, which was inaugurated on October 2, 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Dulag-Strasshof memorial on Respekt.net , accessed on March 31, 2016
  2. ↑ On the history of the Strasshof transit camp , accessed on May 18, 2020
  3. ↑ Description on Respekt.net , accessed on March 31, 2016
  4. ↑ Jochen von Lang (ed.): The Eichmann Protocol - tape recordings of the Israeli interrogations . Severin and Siedler, Berlin 1982. ISBN 3-88680-036-9 . Pp. 221-229.
  5. ↑ Eleonore Lappin-Eppel, Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers in Austria 1944-145. Labor deployment - death marches - Follow Lit-Verlag, Vienna 2010. ISBN 978-3-643-50195-0 , p. 59 ff.
  6. ↑ The Strasshof labor and transit camp at http://www.geheimprojekte.at/ , accessed on March 30, 2016
  7. ↑ Directory of the National Socialist camps and detention centers 1933 to 1945 , accessed on March 30, 2016
  8. ^ Association working group Strasshof , accessed on March 30, 2016

Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 53.5 ″  N , 16 ° 36 ′ 34.1 ″  E