St. Margarethen, March 29, 1945: Remembering the Death March and Holocaust Atrocities

This entry details the tragic events of March 29, 1945, in St. Margarethen, Austria, where thousands of Hungarian Jewish forced laborers were driven to the Römersteinbruch. The SS selected and executed the sick and infirm, rolling boulders from quarry edges onto the assembled group. This event was part of larger death marches occurring across Eastern Austria as the Red Army advanced.

On March 29, 1945, in St. Margarethen, Burgenland, Austria, thousands of Hungarian Jewish forced laborers were herded into the quarry, its steep walls aiding the SS in controlling the large crowd. The SS selected those who were sick or unable to march and executed them, while also rolling boulders from the quarry's edges onto the assembled 5,000-6,000 forced laborers, causing a bloodbath. This event was part of the wider 'death marches' initiated on March 29, 1945, for approximately 40,000 Hungarian Jews who had been conscripted for forced labor along the Hungarian-Austrian border to construct the 'Südostwall' defense system. As Soviet forces advanced, these laborers were evacuated towards the Mauthausen concentration camp, with massacres and executions occurring in dozens of locations across Burgenland, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, and Styria.

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