Jewish Cemetery

One thousand tombstones are scattered over 8,879 square metres of the cemetery founded in 1869. After reconstruction in the 1990s, it has a wrought-iron entrance gate with Jewish symbolism and memorial plaques in the front of the ceremonial hall. Here you will discover the tombstones of members of the local Jewish community, Rabbi Ungar, the parents of composers Gustav Mahler and Louis Fürnberger and many others. The Holocaust Memorial was unveiled on 8 May 1995.

No other Jewish architectural monuments have survived. Historic houses were insensitively demolished in the late 1960s and 1970s. The synagogue was burned in March 1939 and its remains demolished in 1950. The site is now Gustav Mahler Park. A commemorative plaque on the wall, unveiled in April 1992, commemorates the tragedy of thousands of Jihlava Jews during World War II.