The Jewish Quarter is one part of the UNESCO World Heritage site which the town of Třebíč has. It is a symbol of how Christians and Jews have been living side by side for centuries. We were visiting the Jewish Cemetery to have a look at this facet of the lives of the Jews here in Třebíč. There were more than four thousand tombstones here in the cemetery. I wasn’t sure if this is just purely because the Jews have lived here for so long. Some of the tombstones date from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century. Obviously, there was also the world wars to consider.

The cemetery was set up on one hill in the outskirts of town. We had to climb up this hill to get here but turned out that we could have just driven here. I didn’t know that, but my friends weren’t complaining. We were just treating it as our exercise seeing as to how much eating and drinking we were doing all this time. Towards the edges of the cemetery, we would see larger structures which were obviously more mausoleum type compared to the tombstones the rest have. I don’t know if that was a symbol of wealth but you can tell that some tombs were much larger than the others. These are probably the largest ones in the cemetery which already doesn’t have much space to begin with.

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