Cernik Jewish Cemetery

Cernik is a village and municipality in Brod-Posavina County, located 51 km northwest of Brod. The first recorded mention of the city dates to the mid-14th century. At the beginning of the 16th century, King Lodovik granted Cernik the right to conduct fairs. After liberation from Turkish rule, the town considerably developed. A monastery, a few churches, and a palace for the local nobility were built there. By the mid-19th century, there were 162 households in the town. In Cernik, at one point, were 1056 Catholics, 15 Orthodox, and 29 Jews inhabitants. Jews settled in the city at the beginning of the 19th century, where they built their own synagogue (in 1780), cemetery, and elementary school.

The Jewish cemetery is located on a hillside in the southern part of the village. The Jews from Nova Gradiska also used the Jewish cemetery in Cernik. While the cemetery was founded in 1800, the oldest gravestone inscription dates to 1871. Some of the grave inscriptions are written in Hebrew, German, and Croatian. The oldest gravestones are stele-shaped while the later ones are designed as obelisks. Among the more notable buildings in the cemetery include the Schmidek Schulzer family ohel, built as a mausoleum, and the ruins of mortuary. The last burial took place in 1942. The oldest tomb dates to 1906 and the latest to 1938.