The new Jewish cemetery in Mikołów was established in the 1820s. It was established on a triangular plot of 0.52 ha. Its functioning until 1812 depended on the so-called stole, i.e. a customary fee paid by Jews for each funeral to the parish priest of St. Wojciech.
The oldest preserved tombstones come from 1726. Currently, they mark the moment when the necropolis was established.
Until the second decade of the 19th century, the new cemetery in Mikołów served as a burial place for Jews from all towns in south-eastern Upper Silesia, e.g. Bieruń Stary, Gliwice, Pszczyna, Racibórz, Rybnik, Sośnicowice, Wodzisław Śląski and Żory. After establishing Jewish cemeteries in these cities, only Jews from Mikołów and the surrounding villages were buried in the Mikołów cemetery. In 1746, the leader of Silesian Jews, Izaak, son of Szalom Pless, was buried there, and in 1807, Józef Steblicki, a proselyte from Mikołów.
At the beginning of the 1870s, the cemetery was extended from the west by a rectangular plot of 4,385 square meters, purchased in 1828. As a result, the final size of the cemetery was 9,600 square meters. The area was entirely surrounded by a brick and stone wall, while a pre-burial house with an apartment for the caretaker-gardener was erected in the new part on the north side.
It should be assumed that at least 700 adults were buried in the cemetery, and the last burials most likely took place at the beginning of 1940. The number of buried children is practically impossible to estimate, although it can be roughly assumed, knowing how huge their mortality rate was, that there were several hundred of them .
In the eastern part of the necropolis there is a large group of tombstones from the 18th century.
source: sztetl.org.pl