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The tombstone is a black marble obelisk, very typical for Hungarian Jewish cemeteries in the beginning of the 20th century. The epitaph of Ignaz (Itzik) Schwarz consists of two parts: a long poetical Hebrew epitaph at the upper part of the obelisk and a shorter German epitaph on the base. The two-row Hebrew epitaph of his widow Julia (Yetl) is written in broken Hebrew and is followed by a short German one, which ends with the Hebrew year of her death.
פ"נ
האיש הנודע בצדקתו
כה איציק בן יעקב יהודה
שווארץ בן שמנים שנה
נפטר בש"ט [=בשם טוב] י"ג תמוז תרע"ד לפ"ק
ויצא יצחק לשוח בשדה
לפנות ערב [בראשית כד סג] לעת מוצא
עיני אלמנתו בבכי דבו
על יגון לבה ומעצבה
בשבור זרוע ימינה וכעשן כלה
נלקח מחמד נפשה ונותרה שממה
אין ארוכה לה ואין מרפה לשבריה
ובנים אין לה להתנחם לעת זקוניה
יטל שברצ געברענע
בראון
Julie Schwartz
ged. Braun gest. 4. Nov. 1921
72 Jahre alt.
תרפ"א
Hier ruhet Herr
Ignaz Schwartz
gest. 7. Juli 1914, 80 Jahre alt.
Dem unvergesslichen Gatten
dem makellosen Mann
von Tugend und Wahrheit durchdrungen.
Im ewigen Reich wo Du jetzt weilest
Wird Dir die Seligkeit zukommen.
Deine ewig treue Frau.
The Jewish cemetery in Murska Sobota existed from the first half of the 19th century. By the end of World War II there were ca. 65 tombstones, but in the late 1980s, only 38 stones remained. The cemetery chapel was demolished in 1963.
In 1985, the municipality arranged a memorial park, which occupies part of the former cemetery. Eight tombstones were chosen to remain, while the others were sold. The black marble tombstone of Edmund Fürst, the head of the community, serves as an entrance sign.
The still-living Holocaust survivor in Murska Sobota, Erika Fürst, was upset about the disgraceful designation of the cemetery as a Memorial park. Upon her multiple requests, the Municipality of Murska Sobota finally decided to change the inscription on the entrance sign and to make further changes in the park presentation. The renaming of the cemetery took place on 27 January 2015, on the Holocaust Memorial Day. The Mayor Aleksander Jevšek spoke at the opening ceremony. (Communication from Janez Premk on 24 December 2021.)