Written sources have documented Jews in Běleč in small numbers since the end of the 18th century. During the 19th century there were about three to five Jewish families living here, with the last Jew mentioned here in 1921.
The cemetery was founded before 1723 on the edge of the forest between the village of Vilice and Elbančice, then was ex-tended in the 19th century. An area of 2,805 square meters holds around 180 preserved tombstones or their torsos, with the oldest columns dating back to the first half of the 18th century. In addition to the Jewish inhabitants of Mladá Vožice and its surroundings, there were also several Galician refugees buried here during the First World War. The youngest part of the cemetery was devastated in the post-war period, with part of the more modern tombstones being sold. The damaged wall and the small ceremonial hall were repaired between 1996 and 2002. The cemetery is freely accessible.In Mladá Vožice, where most of the buried people were from, the last monument remaining to the Jewish population is a group of four former Jewish houses. There were originally six houses which stood on Židovská Street behind the northwest side of the square in the 18th century. The neo-Gothic Mladá Vožice Synagogue, built in the mid-19th century on the same street, was partially demolished after 1949. The remaining masonry shared with the adjoining house now makes up a residential house that bears a commemorative plaque honoring victims of the Holocaust.
Interesting: In 1855, the couple Moshe and Chayil Liftschitz had a beautiful brocade and velvet curtain made for the tabernacle in Mladá Vožice Synagogue. In 1943, as part of the compulsory collection of the prop-erty of Jewish communities in the Protectorate, this curtain came to the Jewish Museum in Prague, from where it mysteriously disappeared in the mid-1950’s. In April of 2013, it appeared in the offer of a New York branch of the Sotheby’s auction house. After identification, it was from withdrawn from the auction and, after agreement with the person who placed it in the auction, transferred to the Prague Jewish Museum.