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Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
quondam 2005.01.27 12:56
It is a sad irony that on 1 January 1945, 1000s of Donau-Schwabians were herded into boxcars at Apatin, Yugoslavia and shipped to Soviet labor/mining camps in southern Ukraine. The trainloads arrived in/near Bokovo 19 January 1945. Those that survived the concentration were finally freed and sent to West Germany late 1949.
The Donau-Schwabians are ethnic Germans that settled along the Danube River throughout northern Serbia and Romania in the late 1700s after the Austro-Hunagians pushed the Turks out of that region.
Only those between the age of 18 and 45 were shipped to Bokovo. The remaining Donau-Schwabians were placed in concentration/death camps throughout Serbia and Romania. Gakovo was one of the camps.
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