Brodske Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Slovakia
Region
Trnava
District
Skalica
Settlement
Brodské
Site address
360 metres North West from the 1129 road, north from the town.
GPS coordinates
48.69977, 17.01983
Perimeter length
112 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
Original brick fence.
Preservation condition
Fenced and protected Jewish cemetery
General site condition
Maintained Jewish cemetery. In 2013-2014, local schoolchildren cleaned the Jewish cemetery. The holes were filled with the bricks of the original fence and the gaps were replaced. It looks like it has been freshly cleaned, again.
Number of existing gravestones
27. Many tombstones are falls down.
Date of oldest tombstone
1879
Date of newest tombstone
1932
Urgency of erecting a fence
Fence is not needed
Land ownership
Property of local community
Preserved construction on site
Drone surveys
Yes
Historical overview
In 1927, there were 22 Jews living in the village, and 14 of them were there before the deportations in 1942. They had a small square cemetery with an entrance from the west side of the village in a remote place. At the turn of the millennium, the area of the (Jewish) cemetery was so overgrown that it was almost impossible to move around in it, and even the cemetery fence disappeared in the onslaught of trees. In 2014, the students of the local elementary school, under the supervision of teacher Hana Neoveská, brightened the cemetery by cutting out the vegetation and repaired the brick fence into a sympathetic shape. Today, there are less than two dozen mostly vandalized and fallen monuments in the cemetery.
According to the recommendation of the Jewish community, the monuments should be left where they are, because the vandals broke them and rolled them out of their original place.
