Siegendorf

Siegendorf
Siegendorf
Country	Austria
State	Burgenland
District	Eisenstadt-Umgebung
Mayor	Gerhard Steier
Area	23.1 km2 (9 sq mi)
Elevation	176 m  (577 ft)
Population	2,902 (1 January 2011)[1]
- Density	126 /km² (325 /sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal code	7011
Website	www.siegendorf.at Coordinates: 47°47′0″N 16°32′0″E / 47.783333°N 16.533333°E / 47.783333; 16.533333

Siegendorf (Croatian: Cindrof, Hungarian: Cinfalva) is a town in the district of Eisenstadt-Umgebung in Burgenland in Austria.

History

During World War II, a forced labor camp staffed by Hungarian Arrow Cross guards forced Jewish men from northern Transylvania located in Hungarian-occupied Romania, was located in Siegendorf. Nearly all of the inmates were executed by the Hungarian guards as the Soviet liberation forces were approaching when the guards pretended to want to march the Jewish inmates to an unknown location. Very few prisoners survived. Almost none of them documented their experience at this camp except one former inmate who incorrectly claims to be the "sole" survivor. Bear in mind, many survivors were not articulate and did not care the memorialize this experience in writing. But they have passed their experience along via their children and/or grandchildren. The Jewish slaves at the Siegendorf Camp were enslaved in a local Goldmine.

References

1. ^ Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahres- und Quartalsanfang, 2011-01-01.

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.