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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 Northern Banat
"Where the lust for murder raged"
Molidorf
In
Molidorf a community in which a thousand
Danube Swabians once lived, the
Partisans established a large
concentration camp in 1945. It was one
of the largest in the Banat.
Approximately nine thousand Danube
Swabians, mostly women and children from
various other communities in the Banat
were brought here. In the year 1946
there were four thousand deaths. They
were simply left to starve. Many of
them were abused and shot. In 1947
Swabians inmates were still being put to
death. In January of 1947 two children
aged twelve and fourteen were shot. In
May of 1947 the camp authorities killed
two women from Soltur, one of whom had
three children and the other four. At
the end of May in 1947 this camp was
closed down. The surviving inmates were
divided up among other camps. But even
now in the resettlement of the survivors
from Molidorf, the women were beaten by
the Partisans along the way to the new
camps. The old and sick people who were
unable to travel were simply left behind
to die because there was no one to care
for them.
(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 |
