The part of the cemetery wall behind the monument is reinforced and plastered in length of 10 m and height of 2.5 m. The wall serves as a backdrop for a brick pedestal which is 5 m long, 2 m wide, 1 m high and covered with brown-orange concrete and glazed tiles. Adjacent to the pedestal is a low brick podium which is 5 m long, 5 m wide and 0.5 m high, paved with granite slabs and accessible by 3 steps. The cemetery wall features an inscription cast in concrete. Along the wall are 10 glass boxes with metal urns containing soil from significant sites of the war and the Holocaust. The urns are labelled Dargov, Lidice, Ebrach, Dukla, Svidník, Flossenbürg, Pístov, Buchenwald, Haj and Auschwitz. On the higher pedestal, approximately in the middle, stands an abstract sculpture made up of concrete or ceramic glazed segments in various shades of white to reddish-brown.

OBĚTEM DRUHÉ SVĚTOVÉ VÁLKY

(Additional board on the right)

NEJVĚTŠÍ MASOVÝ HROB
obětí fašismu v ČR se nachází na tomto hřbitově.
13. dubna 1945 dovezl na zdejší nádraží
vlakový transport smrti
2500 politických vězňů z KT Buchenwald.
400 bylo již mrtvých, dalších 200 vězňů
neschopných chůze surový doprovod postřílel.
600 obětí z celé Evropy odvezli na tento hřbitov a spálili.
Nový památník těmto obětem byl odhalen v září 1989.
Je věčným svědkem krutosti fašismu.
NIKDY NEZAPOMEŇTE!

The death transport from Buchenwald concentration camp included about 4,500 prisoners. 2,500 of them arrived in Tachov, 400 people died on the way and another 200 were murdered on the spot by the guards. These 600 victims of the transport, and probably also several other victims who died following the rail journey, at the beginning of the death march to the Flossenbürg concentration camp, were transported to the new Jewish cemetery in Tachov, dumped to a mass grave and burnt. The information plaque dates from 1989 and the text testifies to the regime of the time. Some information is distorted or inaccurate. In fact, the victims burried here were not only political prisoners but also Jewish prisoners.
The new Jewish cemetery in Tachov was established in the 1930s, when the old Jewish cemetery was completely full. In the period before World War II, only 6 burials were performed here. At the end of the war, the aforementioned mass grave was placed there. The rest of the area remained empty. From approximately the 1960s onwards, the empty area began to be used by the town as a communal urn burial ground. The enclosure wall was also rebuilt. A functionalist ceremonial hall, a well and part of the enclosure wall have been preserved from the original Jewish cemetery. At the beginning of the 21st century, following an agreement between the town of Tachov and the Federation of Jewish Communities, the cemetery plot was to be measured and divided into Jewish and communal parts, with the Jewish part being transferred to the ownership of the Federation of Jewish Communities. This change has not yet been implemented.
Outside the cemetery, near the entrance, a tourist information board was placed in 2022, with images and text material relating to the transports and death marches.