Weyer concentration camp

The memorial place Weyer concentration camp/Innviertel is a memorial for the commemoration of the former so-called educating-through-work and Romani internment camp St. Pantaleon-Weyer. The camp was situated in Weyer, a part of the municipality Haigermoos, which belonged to the municipality Sankt Pantaleon until 1945.

Camp history

The German Labour Front – camp was initiated in 1940 by the Gauleiter August Eigruber as a Labor camp. The occupants, mostly citizens of the surrounding area, had to carry out dehydration activities at the Moosach. The camp staff consisted of SA-men of the group Alpenland from the municipality. After five detainees died from abuse within a short time, the municipal doctor of Sankt Pantaleon, Dr. A. St., and the prosecution Ried pressed charges against the camp management and staff. The Labor camp was closed in 1941 as Labor camp and the action was dismissed on instructions. From then on the camp was used as Roma internment camp. Particularly Austrian (also some who were born in the Innviertel) Roma, also women and children, were detained and deployed at the IBM-Waidmooser dehydration. In November 1941, the camp was ultimately closed. The 301 detainees who had survived were loaded into cattle wagons in Bürmoos and, after a short stopover in Lackenbach in Burgenland, transported to the Ghetto Litzmannstadt.[1]

The memorial

Through the memorial, the municipality Sankt Pantaleon commemorates also its own responsibility as the then competent administration. [2] The memorial alongside the Moosach was created by the sculptor Dieter Schmidt from Fridolfing and inaugurated on 24 June 2000. It is situated within the boundaries of today’s municipality Sankt Pantaleon, and not on the premises of the Weyer concentration camp, which belong to today’s municipality Haigermoos.

Literature

References

  1. ↑ Massendeportationen nach Lodz
  2. ↑ Der Gemeindevorsteher

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Coordinates: 48°02′42″N 12°52′55″E / 48.0450°N 12.8820°E / 48.0450; 12.8820

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