Cemetery
Old Jewish cemetery
Sephardic burial ground on a wooded hillside, with flat and coffin-shaped stones marking four centuries of graves.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Split's Old Jewish cemetery on Marjan hill opens with a phone call one Sunday morning in April 2014, when a caretaker described headstones smashed and graves torn open overnight. Ana Lebl, who led the city's small Jewish community, took that call. The guide traces the burial ground back to 1573, when city authorities granted this hillside to Split's Sephardic Jewish community, and to 1942, when Nazi forces burned the community's archive during the war. Stand at the low stone wall and look for the roughly seven hundred markers still legible on the slope.
This audio guide was created using AI.