Fels am Wagram concentration camp

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The Fels am Wagram concentration camp was a satellite camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Fels am Wagram in Lower Austria .

description

In 1938, the construction of a small airport and administration began in Fels. Evidently from June 27, 1944, Hungarian Jews were also forcibly employed there, who were housed in a barrack camp that was built directly on the site. Together with the foreign workers housed in Thürnthal Castle, the commandant was responsible for up to 3,000 people who were used as "work slaves" by farmers and various companies.

Situation today

The area of ​​the former barracks camp, which is located north of Kamptal Straße (B 34) , is today largely parceled out and built up. The airport became farmland again.

Trivia

At the end of 1944, Maria Grausenburger took one of these Jewish refugee families from Hungary into her home and hid her from the Nazis, for which she was honored by the Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations in 1978 .

literature

  • Ingrid Oberndorfer: Hungarian Jews in the Fels am Wagram concentration camp between July 1944 and March 1945 , in David, Jüdische Kulturzeitschrift, issue 101, Ebenfurth online

Coordinates: 48 ° 26 ′ 37 "  N , 15 ° 48 ′ 48"  E