 8,000 Yugoslav Jews, among them Slovene Jews, who were all allowed to take their property with them, left for Israel.In 1953, the synagogue of Murska Sobota, the only remaining after the Shoah, which the handful of Jewish survivors were unable to maintain and therefore sold in 1949 to the city, was demolished by the local Communist authorities to make way for new apartments.Many Jews were expelled from Yugoslavia as "ethnic Germans", and most of Jewish property was confiscated.