Jewish Cemetery

The Jewish cemetery in Dolga vas, near Lendava, is the only Jewish cemetery in Prekmurje and the largest of its kind in Slovenia. The Jewish people of Dolnja Lendava buried their deceased there back in the 1830s. The cemetery was expanded in 1880 and, in 1904, they built a funeral parlour. The gravestones, facing towards Jerusalem, are engraved with names in Latin and Hebrew. Despite the fact that none of the descendants of the Jews from Lendava are alive, the cemetery is, at present, still being taken care of. However, there are fewer and fewer pebble stones left to find on the gravestones.