 In 1944, about 75 percent of 21,000 Hungarian Jews deported from a concentration camp at Strasshof survived due to an agreement between the Aid and Rescue Committee of Budapest and Adolf Eichmann.. On 2 December 1944 the marshalling yard in "Straszhof" was the target of an Allied bombing.On 23 August 2006, kidnapped teenager Natascha Kampusch escaped after nearly 8½ years imprisonment in a cellar of a Strasshof house.The presumed kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil committed suicide on the evening of the same day.