Ratkovo was home to a Jewish community since 1759, with the cemetery established in 1776. It remained in use until the Holocaust. When ESJF surveyors visited the site, they found it was in poor condition, unfenced and occasionally maintained by volunteers from the town.
For more information on this site visit: https://www.esjf-cemeteries.org/fenced/ratkovo-jewish-cemetery/
The cemetery preserves about 25 tombstones left. The site was fenced by ESJF in November 2020.
The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church was built in 1784 and took on its present appearance when it was renovated in 1836. The rich sculpture of the iconostasis wall is the work of Aksentije Marković from 1791. Three years later, Arsenija Teodorović was engaged for the painted decoration of the choir. The mural decoration was painted in 1936 by Milenko Đurić.
The cemetery has 10 gravestones, the oldest one from 1894 and the latest one from 1905. The site was fenced by ESJF in September 2017.
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