Photo: Tourismusverband Oststeiermark · Karl Schrotter

Mahnmal Rathaus Gleisdorf

Gleisdorf, Styria

ausstellung

Name: Mahnmal Rathaus Gleisdorf Description: The design for the memorial behind the town hall was created by Corinna Donnerer, a 15-year-old student from Gleisdorf at the time. The construction measures and financing were undertaken by the municipality of Gleisdorf. From the beginning of 1945, numerous crimes occurred in Styria, which were suppressed and ultimately forgotten soon after the liberation from the Nazi regime and a short phase of primarily judicial processing: the crimes against thousands of Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers. The memorial commemorates the death march of Hungarian Jews in April 1945. Annually around May 5th - the day on which the Mauthausen concentration camp was liberated by American troops - a memorial ceremony is held at the monument.