This square has a dark past. During the ghetto period, the dead were temporarily buried here.
At the beginning of ghettoization, the dead could still be taken out of the ghetto to the cemetery on a daily basis, but at the beginning of December, 1944, this was no longer an option. The ghetto was closed, and exit or entry to the ghetto was prohibited for Jewish people. So, during this period, people began to bury the dead here in Klauzál Square.
When the ghetto was liberated in January 1945, this area was full of corpses, buried and unburied, frozen in the cold weather. The bodies from the mass grave at Klauzál Square were later exhumed and buried in the Jewish cemetery.