Born at Stefansfeld, Torontal-Banat, Austria-Hungary.

Married: Katharina Klupp, 1892 at Stefansfeld. Nine (9) children born to their union.

Shot in his leg while trying to escape on a horse pulled wagon.
Died at Rudolfsgnad (now Knićanin, Vojvodina, Serbia) concentration camp, Hungary.
Cause of death: starvation in the concentration camp.
Buried in mass grave at Teletschka Hill, abt. 2km south of Rudolfsgnad (now Knićanin, Vojvodina, Serbia) concentration camp, Hungary.

Related links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knicanin
http://www.dvhh.org/community/memorials/
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BANAT/2002-07/1025738906
http://www.dvhh.org/banat/history/1940/yugoslavian_banat/
http://donauschwaben-usa.org/Human%20Misery_Life%20in%20a%20Death%20Camp.htm

For Awender/Anwender ged see:
http://awender.org/genealogy/index.php?ctype=gedcom

NOTES:

Rudolfsgnad/Banat

Rudolfsgnad is located in the Yugoslavian-Banat; you will find it at;
" http://www.rootsweb.com/~romban/map/bigmap.htlm " "K-3"

Rudolfsnag was a concentration camp for central and southern part of the
Yugoslavia, Banat.
The population of the village itself was 3,200.
Total people in camp from 17,200 up to 20,500.
Camp was build on October 10, 1945 and in use until March 1948, 29 months,
(880days.)
Total of deaths; ca. 11,000 plus.
Some deaths caused by: Typhus, Malaria, and starvation.
From the 3,200 local inhabitants, 900 did not leave their home. The camp was
built for all German people from Yugoslavian Banat, children, women, and
elderly men who still were at home. At the end, people from Germany who were
War Prisoners, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Austria, were also in camp. In
March 1948, it was discovered some of German Yugoslavian people had been
transferred to southern Serbia and Kosovo but never returned nor are there
any records showing of their disappearance.
Shortage of doctors and facilities for the sick, also was one of the death
causes. At the end of November in 1945, the camp reached its peak; it had
20,500 persons in camp. The total deaths reached 11,000, the highest of all
the camps.
On December 27, 1944, - 47 girls and women and 20 men from Rudolfsgnade had
to leave their homes behind and were deported to Russia to work in the
coalmines. On April 14, 1945, the local inhabitants had to evacuated their
homes. Where the women and children were put into the school building and
the boys from 14 up and men were put into the Kindergarten quarters. In the
fall all the local bricklayers were forced to build eight high towers
overlooking the concentration camp. The towers became the observation point
for the "State Police" (Miliz) who used machine guns if needed. On October
10, 1945, the Tito regimes brought thousands and thousands of German
civilians, children, elderly people, women, and men to Rudolfsgnad and were
put in empty houses and the concentration camp. They all were from Banater
villages. The contingencies were from: Karlsdorf, Ernsthausen, St. George
a.d. (by the) Bega, Elemir, Jabuka, Modosch, Kathreinfeld, Klek, Kubin,
Franzfeld, Lazarfeld, Zichydorf, Signmundfeld, Mramorak, Nakodorf,
Pantschowa, Ploschitz, Sartscha, Setschanfeld, Sanddorf, Tschestereg and
Stefansfeld. The strongest contingencies were: Mramorak, Banat-Brestowatz,
Jabuka, Nakodorf, and Ernsthausen, over 1000 persons were from those
villages. The concentration camp guarded by "Miliz" where "Partisans"
watched the local houses. Straw was put into rooms to sleep on, no blankets
were provided.
The women and children were forced to work everyday, cutting down dead
trees and dead branches from trees to make firewood for the "Miliz" and
Partisans. They were not allowed to take any wood home to the concentration
camp for cooking. The women also had to dig holes in the fields, in a
rectangle shape, which they thought may be used as bunkers later on, or as
out houses. At the beginning the food was shared amongst the people in the
camp, but when food was getting scarce, everybody was for themselves. It
came to the point where people had to sneak out of camp at nighttimes to
steal something to eat. Heating and cooking supplies was short, so they
resorted to the wood from the fences. There were twenty to thirty people in
one room, and the straw which was used for sleeping, was never changed until
the camp closed in 1948. The people were dying of starvation due to the
shortage of food supply. They were so hungry, they even ate all scraps of
food even what was slop for the pigs. The people even resorted to
slaughtering any moving animals, (such as cats, dogs, even mice, rats and
gophers.) In the concentration camp, blindness mental illness was caused due
to starvation, which was brought on by the Tito Regime.
Some prisoners took their own risk leaving camp at nighttime to go begging
to the local Serbian residence. A man (not mentioning his name) left camp
during the night to get some food for his four grandchildren, who were
starving, he was caught by the Partisans. He was asked to kneel down, two
shots were heard through the camp, the man fell over and was dead.
"Grandma, grandma, .when is grandfather coming with the food, because we
are hungry?" When grandmother heard the gunshots, she was wondering if it
wasn't her husband who got shot. Two hours had passed, her husband still
hadn't returned. Finally the Partisans threw a body in front of the entrance
door and said; "Here, this one is one of your people, look after him!"
Grandmother's lips started to quiver, faster and faster. Finally the tears
from her eyes ran down her cheeks, (just like the Danube River) .she let out
a yell. . "You bastards, you Serbian rotten bastards, .the only thing he
wanted to do, find food for the little children."
The next day her husband was buried, he was thrown into the out-house. His
wife not able to take the agony any longer, she committed suicide and jumped
into the out-house to join her husband.
As one man put it, who was in charge burying the dead in the cemetery.
The men were shot and the women were stabbed to death. The women were
gathered in the courtyard and left there for starvation. The Partisans
approached the women saying to them,"Whoever goes to bed with me, will not
starve!" All the women shouted in anger,
." A Schwaben woman rather starve to death before she goes to bed with a
Partisan Pig like you, I will not betray my marriage vowels."
Children up to 14 years old, whose father was in the war and their mother
was deported to Russia to work in the coalmines, were put in a separate room
from the adults.
Some of them left the camp at nighttime looking for food, some returned
safely but some were caught. Two young girls the ages of 12-13 were caught
while returning to the camp. The Partisans locked them into a room and asked
them to remove their cloths, which they refused. The Partisans ripped their
cloths off them, before being sexually abused they used their cigarette
lighter and burned their whole body, spot by spot. The two girls died two
hours afterwards.
After the Partisan's take over in October of 1944, the name Rudolfsgnad has
changed to Knicanin (Banat).
Death total; by February 1946, the death total was 1,346, On February 4,
1946, the maximum deaths per day was 72. The first 15 months between
1700-20,000 German Schwaben died at Rudolfsgnad, by illness, starvation and
murdered by the Partisans.
I hope this will give you more information on the Rudolfsgnad Concentration
Camp.

Alex.
"REMEMBER WHERE YOU CAME FROM."

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