Botschar

A formerly Ethnic-German majority village named Botschar in German, Bocsár in Hungarian and Bočar in Serbian (Serbian Cyrillic: Бочар). The village is located in the Novi Bečej (Neu Betsche) municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. It is conservatively estimated that 32 Ethnic Germans died in their home village of Botschar from 1944-1948. Many others were sent to the nearby Yugoslav Communist Partisan Concentration Camps of Molidorf and Rudolfsgnad where 2,012 and 7,767 people are estimated to have died. Most were interred in mass graves. Causes of death for the Ethnic Germans ranged from torture, muder, starvation, disease and overwork. For more information on Botschar or the Ethnic Cleansing of the Yugoslav Ehtnic Germans please visit: https://www.dvhh.org/history/atrocities/Liquidation-Camps.htm