This cemetery was established in 1800 and was the burial ground for many of Kraków's distinguished Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its story takes on a darker aspect with the decimation of the Jewish population between 1939 and 1945. Many of the tombstones are actually no more than memorials to entire families that were killed in the Holocaust. They now lie surrounded by weeds. The rejuvenation of Kazimierz has not yet penetrated the New Cemetery's walls, but there are newly-lit candles burning over the headstones.