Donnerskirchen


Donnerskirchen is a market town in the district Eisenstadt-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Burgenland.

History

World War II

During World War II a small concentration camp was located near the village. In 1951 Nikolaus Schorn was convicted of the murder of Jewish slave laborers in the Donnerskirchen camp in January, 1945, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Schorn was head of the camp. Most of his victims were Hungarian Jews.

Population