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At the Jewish cemetery in Titel, around 15 tombstones have survived, along with several brick and concrete tomb bases. Most of the preserved gravestones date back to the early 20th century, between 1902 and 1908. Jewish presence in Titel dates to the late 18th century, while an independent community was established in the second half […]

The site is located behind the Christian cemetery. Around ten tombstones have survived, belonging to local Jewish families such as Marberger, Steinitz, and Löbl, and dating from 1898 to 1912. According to Yad Vashem, there are 27 records connected to Kovilj. Before the war, the Jewish community included families such as merchant Adam Morgenstern, Franjo […]

The burial site is located in the northern part of the municipal cemetery and had long been hidden in bushes and trees. As shown in the drone photos, the area was completely overgrown. To install the fence, the construction team carefully cleared the site. The fencing project at the Titel Jewish cemetery is funded by […]

ESJF fenced the Šid Jewish cemetery in 2025. As part of a competition, teacher Gordana Pavlović from “Sava Šumanović” Gymnasium, together with students Jovana Trifunović and Tara Obućina, conducted research on this site. They named their project “The Silence That Speaks.” Through preparation, field research, and workshop activities, students learned to read the memorial space […]

Our team has concluded the second stage of the national survey launched this summer. Out of the 170 localities where Jewish cemeteries could have been located according to various sources, we documented 130 burial sites. The collected data will now be processed, and our historians will prepare a report on Jewish cemeteries in Serbia — […]

Within the cemetery’s 196-meter perimeter, approximately 150 tombstones have been preserved. At the same time, only one section of the original surrounding wall has remained. In recent days, ESJF completed the installation of the rest of the fence, carefully following the style of the original structure. This cemetery was in use until the local Jewish […]

Ten educational events across Serbia were organized by ESJF together with local partners (Jevrejska Opstina Novi Sad) in towns where we had previously installed fences around Jewish cemeteries. More than 300 students, teachers, local residents, media representatives, members of the Jewish community, municipal officials, and civil society organizations took part in the events in Silbaš, […]

The Jewish cemetery in Silbaš, Vojvodina district, is now protected by a new fence. The site stands as the last tangible reminder of the local Jewish community, with four tombstones preserved within its grounds. The first Jews settled in Silbaš in the late 18th century. The community reached its peak around 1880, when 52 Jewish […]

The ESJF had just completed the fencing of the Jewish cemetery in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia. The site contains around 30 tombstones, mostly from the first half of the 20th century. Bordering residential houses, the cemetery is now protected from any future construction or expansion nearby. This means the tangible heritage of the Jewish community of […]

While our surveyors are completing the documentation of all known Jewish cemeteries in Serbia, we have just finished installing a fence around the eighth Jewish cemetery in the country this year. The Jews of Čerević shared the tragic fate of millions of Jews across Eastern Europe. During the Holocaust, after being deported from Čerević, they […]

ESJF Senior Surveyor Ian Galevskii has returned to Serbia this autumn, when the vegetation is less dense, to complete the national survey of Jewish cemeteries that began earlier in the summer. The surveys are conducted with the help of drones, which allow us to create detailed 3D terrain models to ensure the most accurate fence […]

Work in Serbia is moving forward at full speed. We’ve just completed the installation of a fence around the Jewish cemetery in Pivnice! Around 25 tombstones have survived at this site, dating from the 1850s to the early 20th century. Like many Jewish communities at the time, Pivnice’s was wiped out in the Shoah. The […]