By Rob Hyde A gravestone company in Upper Austria tried to sell a man a grave for his wife who is still alive. Franz Lengauer, 73, was shocked to received a prospectus addressed to the family of “the deceased Mrs Maria Lengauer” when she was sitting right next to him at their house in Mauthausen. […]
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The teeth of two of the world’s most famous composers have been stolen from their graves by a man who says he wants to start a museum. The alleged Czech thief who has boasted about his crime on the internet says he wants to now display the famous teeth and dentures he has robbed not […]
By John Leo-Moberg A book containing the records of people buried in the Jewish cemetery in the Austrian Deutschkreutz community may finally let families know where their ancestors were put to rest. All records were lost after the cemetery was destroyed by the Nazis in the 1940s. But the Jewish cemetery in Deutschkreutz should now […]