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 were confined in cattle cars and transported to Zagreb. Some were sent to forced labor in Germany, while others were taken to the Jasenovac concentration camp. After the war, not a single Jew from Čerević returned.
The Jewish cemetery of Čerević dates back to the 1860s. Today, around ten gravestones with inscriptions in German and Hebrew remain preserved there. The oldest surviving gravestone dates to 1863; most of the others are from the 1880s-1890s.
The fencing of the Čerević Jewish cemetery was funded by the Auswärtiges Amt (German Federal Foreign Office) and made possible with the support of our partners at the Federation of Jewish Communities in Serbia, especially our country coordinator, Ladislav Trajer.