The simple monument takes the form of a low, roughly cut stone stele approximately 140 cm high, which stands in a square gravel bed. The white dedication is significantly weathered, with the paint to dissolving over time and running down the stone.

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mohli žít.

Several transports and death marches passed through the countryside around Chomutov in April 1945. Their route is still lined with monuments and memorials at the sites of mass graves of prisoners, who were either shot by guards or died as a result of malnutrition, exhaustion, infectious diseases and untreated injuries. One such monument is a modest stone stele on the site of the Jewish cemetery in Nezabylice-Hořenec. It is not known when the cemetery was founded but it was destroyed by the Nazis during World War II and never rebuilt. The local Jewish population, dating back to the 17th century, was completely eradicated.
On 16 and 17 April 1945, a death march from Reitzenhain passed by the village, probably heading for Terezín. Subsequently, 34 bodies of prisoners were found in the near Nezabylice. They were first placed in a mass grave in the now destroyed Jewish cemetery and a year later, on 13–14 April 1946, exhumed for burial in the Jewish cemetery in Údlice. At the site of the exhumed mass grave, a stone stele was erected with a symbolic but vague inscription reflecting the fact that most of the victims found there were never precisely identified. All that is left of the Jewish cemetery itself are the remains of three tombstones and the remains of the outer wall. The site was also a target of vandals during the communist period.
The monument originally included the symbol of a red star, which was removed after 1989. The site was renovated in the early 2000s and a tourist rest area was built nearby. A newly installed information board draws attention to the importance of the site. According to older photographs, the monument was originally surrounded by a low metal fence of red and later green colour, but this was removed during the renovation of the site.