Adolf Eichmann and his handful of team started ghettoisation and deportation of the Hungarian Jews in April 1944, with an active help from some 200 000 Hungarians (involving gendarmerie, state officials and railwaymen).
Deportation from Baja was completed on three dates: 150 people were carried away on 14 April, the majority, some 640 on Whitsun/Pentacost (28 May), while the last day of deportation took place in mid-June. Jews from Baja were first deported to Gänserndorf and then to Auschwitz. Of the people deported to Auschwitz only 19 of them returned, all the others were killed. A memorial was raised to 1400 victims of Baja, according to deportation figures. 400 people returned after the deportation; most of them survived the end of the war in Austrian labour camps.