Not far from Dunajská Streda lies the village of Holice, home to a rare ancient church dating from the 13th century. It appears that a sizable Jewish community lived here until World War II. It is known from older documents that at the beginning of the 18th century, Jews named Salamon Isaác (born 1710) and Marcus Herschl (born 1715) lived here, likely with their families.
In connection with the Jewish community of Mliečno, Jews were also known to have lived here, as some documents mention individuals originating from or living in Holice; however, nothing indicated that there was a separate Jewish community here with a cemetery and even a synagogue, and reportedly its own rabbi. The independent community apparently emerged sometime in the 19th century, and the Jews living here prior to that belonged either to Dunajská Streda or Mliečno. The cemetery dates from the early 1880s; it is located in a field and is only a remnant of what once stood here. As elsewhere, several of the higher-quality tombstones here have been stolen. The original enclosure no longer exists, but the site is protected by a new fence.
The oldest of the tombstones is the matzeva of Hendl Herzfeld from 1900. Others include the steles of the Engel couple, Abigadar and Jochebed, from the early 1920s; Brejndl Herzfeld from 1926; Abraham Blau from 1925; and the final gravestone of Chevra Kadisha chairman Yitzhak Fuks (Fuchs) from 1938. His great-grandson from Israel recently came forward, delighted that his gravestone still exists. A reconstruction of the cemetery is planned.
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