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The Northern Banat
"Where the lust for murder raged"
Beodra
There
were seventy-one Danube Swabian families
that lived in Beodra. At the beginning
of October 1944 the Partisans brought
twenty-eight Danube Swabian men, mostly
from other communities to Beodra. They
were imprisoned in the stable of the
police station and during the night they
were hacked and chopped to death. In
addition, ten of Beodra’s Swabian men
and two women were taken from their
homes and imprisoned in the jail and
were abused and tortured for sixteen
days and early in the evening of October
18th, 1944 they were shot at
the community manure pile. The corpses
were later buried. Other Swabians died
as a result of individual acts of terror
by the Partisans. The rest of the
Swabian community was sent to the
extermination camps at Kikinda,
Betscherek and Rudolfsgnad.
(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 |
