The cemetery was established in 1800 outside the borders of Kazimierz on land purchased by the Jewish community from the Augustinian Order. In 1836, the area was enlarged by a further fragment purchased from the monks.
In the years 1902–1903, a funeral home was erected at the entrance to the cemetery, which replaced the previous building, which did not meet the sanitary standards. The new mortuary, built of brick, on a rectangular plan, consisted of a hall with a vestibule, a prayer room, a room for ritual ablution of a body, two morgues, an autopsy room, an office, a gatehouse and a caretaker's apartment, a coach house.
During the German occupation during the Second World War, the cemetery was devastated. At the request of the Germans, some of the tombstones were used for construction work in the forced labor camp in Płaszów, and others were sold to the owners of stonemasonry plants. In 1941, the Stadthauptmann Rudolf Pavlu forbade the burial of the dead in the cemetery at ul. Miodowa.
After 1945, some of the tombstones from Płaszów were moved to the cemetery at ul. Miodowa. The cemetery was cleaned up in 1957 with the funds of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. At the entrance, a monument designed by Maciej Jakubowicz in honor of those murdered during the Holocaust was erected. Numerous symbolic tombstones have appeared in the cemetery, commemorating the victims of the Holocaust. In the depths of the cemetery there are monuments commemorating those shot in Tymbark near Limanowa, Skawina, Wesoła near Słomniki, and Olszanica. In 1989, the Nissenbaum Family Foundation carried out cleaning work on the cemetery.
Currently, the cemetery covers an area of 4.25 ha. At the entrance there is a funeral home. It is estimated that there are over 10,000 people living in the cemetery. tombstones, mostly in the form of traditional steles, with inscriptions in Hebrew. In the mid-nineteenth century, German and Polish-language tombstone epitaphs appeared, reflecting the changes taking place among the Jews of Kraków.
based: Sztetl.org.pl