Obj. ID: 54681
Memorials Mass grave of 100 Hungarian Jews in the Jewish Cemetery in Steyr, Austria, 1947, 1991
To the main object: Jewish Cemetery in Steyr, Austria
Memorial Name
No official name
Who/What is Commemorated?
Hungarian Jewish forced laborers murdered during the death marches in April 1945.
Description:
The mass grave is situated in the Jewish cemetery of Steyr. A wide concrete stele stands at the southern border of the mass grave. In 1991, the front of the original stele was covered with granite plaques, repeating its original form. The central part of the stele is roundheaded and contains a depiction of the Star of David with the letters pai nun. On the right side of the stele, there is a Hebrew inscriptions and on the left side - the German inscription that contains the date of its unveiling.
A memorial plaque with the names of 15 victims was placed at a corner of the mass grave in 2012:
Inscriptions:
Hebrew:
פ"נ
בערך מאה יהודים קדושים
שנהרגו ונשחטו על קדושת השם
על ידי הממשלה הרשעה של היטלר ימ"ש
בשנות תש"ב – תש"ה
יזכור אלהים את נשמותיהם הקדושות
וינקום לעינינו נקמת
דמי עבדיו אשר צועקים מן האדמה
ארץ אל תכסי דמם
בגן עדן תהא מנוחתם
ת'נ'צ'ב'ה'
Translation: Here are buried about 100 Jewish martyrs that were killed and murdered for the sanctification of the Name / by the wicked government of Hitler, may his name be obliterated, / in the years 1942-1945. May God remember their holy souls and avenge in front of our eyes the vengeance of the blood of His servants (after Deut. 32:43) which cry from the earth "Earth, do not cover their blood" (Job 16:18). "may their place of rest be in Gan Eden" (El male rachamim prayer). May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.
German:
Hier ruhen 100 unserer Brüder
welche in Sturme der Verfolgung
im April 1945
als Opfer ihres Glaubens
von freflerischen Mörderhänden
den grausamen Tod gefunden haben.
Mit Eurem heldenhaften Blute
wurde ein Kapitel der unvergesslichen
Jüdischen Leidensgeschichte geschrieben
welche wir nie vergessen werden
September 1947
Jüdisches Siedlungslager 231
Translation: Here rest 100 of our brothers who, in the storm of persecution in April 1945 found a cruel death at the hands of wicked murderers as victims of their faith. With your heroic blood, a chapter of the unforgettable Jewish history of suffering was written which we will never forget. September 1947. Jewish settlement camp 231.
Commissioned by
Jewish displaced persons from Jewish settlement camp 231 (1947)
he Linz Israelite Community (1991)
sub-set tree: 
Epitaph
Hebrew traditional formulas | Tantzabah תנצבה
Prayer | El male rachamim
Hebrew traditional formulas | May their names be obliterated ימש
Quote from Jewish sources | Bible | Writings | Job | Job 16:18 (Earth, do not cover their blood / ארץ אל תכסי דמם)
Quote from Jewish sources | Bible | Torah / Five Books of Moses / Pentateuch | Dvarim / Deuteronomy | Deuteronomy 32:43
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The first concrete monument on the mass grave was constructed in September 1947 by the Jewish Displaced Persons from camp 231. It contained Hebrew and German inscriptions.
The monument was renovated in 1991. The front of the monument was covered with granite plaques, on which the original inscriptions were repeated. According to the website of the Mauthausen Komitee Steyr (https://mkoe-steyr.at/juedisches-steyr/): "During the renovation work on the Jewish cemetery in the summer of 1991, the text of the memorial stone at the mass grave, which commemorates the death march of the Hungarian Jews in April 1945, was engraved on new granite slabs. This made it possible to preserve the legibility of the text. The costs of 26,000 Austrian schillings were borne by the Linz Israelite Community. The Mauthausen Committee Steyr was responsible for the organizational implementation. The new memorial stone was unveiled at the commemoration ceremony on November 8, 1991."
Ramsmaier, Karl, Der jüdische Friedhof Steyr (Steyr, Mauthausen Komitee Steyr, 2018), pp. 10-11.
Ramsmaier, Karl, "Die Geschichte der
Juden in Steyr," Mauthausen Komitee Steyr (July 2009), https://mkoe-steyr.at/juedisches-steyr/.
The Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria / Fonds zur Instandsetzung der jüdischen Friedhöfe in Österreich (website), https://www.friedhofsfonds.org/detail-view/54.