Jewish Cemetery Volary
A Jewish cemetery dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust.
The Jewish cemetery in Volary is dedicated to the memory of a hundred women who perished during a death march from the Günberg concentration camp in Ravensbrück. It was established in 1945 and is listed among Jewish heritage sites.
The cemetery is unique as it is the only one in Europe that displays the names of the victims on individual tombstones. The white granite headstones are laid out in regular rows. Initially, they had metal nameplates, but the inscriptions were later engraved into the stone.
Death March
95 Polish and Hungarian Jewish women, who died during a 29-day, 700 km-long death march, were buried in the cemetery. 22 died of malnutrition, while the others were shot. The Germans were later forced to exhume the bodies and rebury them properly in the presence of German civilians.
The site was renovated between 1989 and 1990.
