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The cemetery was in 2023 renewed by the municipality with the support of the European Regional Development Fund. A total of 100 gravestones or their remains were found and reconstructed, of which 55 were fully or partially identified. 70 tombstones or their parts were placed in rows. 16 fragments were placed in the lapidary and 12 were attached to the cemetery wall. The oldest tombstone is from the beginning of the 19th century and the youngest from 1937. The cemetery also served the Jewish residents of the surrounding villages - Nová Bystrica, Lodno, Radostka, Klubina. Krasno nad Kysucou and more. A memorial to the victims of the Holocaust was built at the cemetery.
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