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Post World War II
Leidensweg
Extermination In the Yugoslavian Banat
Chapter 3: Genocide in the
Yugoslavian Banat,
translated by
Henry Fischer
The Southern Banat
"A Bloodbath Without Borders"
Homolitz
In
one day, October 22, 1944 the Partisans
killed two hundred and eighty-seven
Danube Swabians including very many
children in the village of Homolitz.
Thirteen year old Knabe Moradolf was
among them. They were all taken from
their homes, one at a time, imprisoned
in the town hall and mistreated and
abused. The next morning they were
fettered and then driven on foot to the
brickyards at dawn. There they had to
strip themselves of all of their clothes
and then in groups they were driven to a
large pit that had been used in the
production of bricks. There they were
encircled by Partisans who mowed them
down with machine guns and their bodies
were thrown into the pit.
(Following the First World
War the Banat was divided
between Yugoslavia &
Romania, with two thirds
going to Romania & one
third annexed to Yugoslavia)
Österreichische
Historiker-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Für Kärnten und Steiermark
(Austrian Historian Working
Group for Kärnten and Steiermark)
Translated & contributed by
Henry Fischer |
