JEWISH CEMETERY, SHUMEN

The largest Jewish remnant in Shumen is its cemetery. It was used in the period 1879-1964 and contains about 650 graves. 

The Jewish cemetery has been repeatedly vandalised. In 2008 some tombstones were sprayed with Nazi swastikas. About 30 stones were toppled and broken. The local police declared it was not an antisemitic attack, but just hooliganism perpetrated by youths who could not be prosecuted because they were underage. The cemetery is fenced and locked, but antisemitic signs continue to appear periodically, most recently in 2020.