Most Jewish congregations have their own cemetery. In the past the master of the estate had to be asked first to give the green light to the foundation of a new cemetery. Therefore, Jewish cemeteries used to be located far away from the city or village to get it out of the sight of other people. In some regions such a cemetery could be founded only in a despised place, for instance next door to the scaffold.

Trebic Jews buried their deceased in a stretch of land near the rampart of the Benedictine Monastery. Their burial ground was closed down either due to having been destroyed by rampaging Hungarian troops in 1468 or by order of Katerina of Valdstejn, the owner of the estate, in the early 17th century. A new Jewish cemetery founded on the off-the-city facing slope of the Hradek Hill above the Tynsky Creek (Tynsky potok) was enclosed by a stone wall. It was substantially enlarged in 1888 by purchasing an adjoining stretch of land. Up to 11,000 people are buried here, the cemetery contains 3,000 gravestones whose various ornamental designs represent the development of designs of Jewish gravestones. Jews had a superstition that tombs should not be moved around.

Therefore, every time the cemetery was pressed for space, tombs were placed one on another in layers with gravestones being raised up a little bit. The cemetery is approachable from Hradek Street (ulice Hradek) through a wrought-iron entrance gate. Beside the gate is the funeral hall built in 1903 whose interior decoration and furnishings have survived almost intact up to the present. One of the most precious items is a decorated porcelain washbowl that served for ritual hand-washing before ceremonies. Furthermore, two stone boxes for donations can be found at the entrance to the cemetery. In the northern, oldest part of the cemetery the old Jewish tombs have Renaissance tombstones. These were brought here from the closed-down cemetery. The tombstones carry ornamental inscriptions in Hebrew. The names engraved on the stones are mostly Czech. Modern gravestones tend to be larger, they usually have the shape of an oblong planted lengthwise, exceptionally they can have the shape of an obelisk. Their inscriptions were mostly engraved in German and only rarely ornamented. Jews used to visit graves very frequently. They would bring from their homes stones and put them on the graves of their deceased as a token of respect.