Jewish cemetery in the Polish city of Kielce - now a closed cemetery. It was founded in 1868, it has an area of ​​3, 12 ha. At the cemetery is more than 330 tombstones.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, with the rapid development of Jewish settlements in Kielce, the local religious communities are faced with the need to organize a new burial place. Previously, a few Jewish cemeteries were committed in a neighboring village. For this purpose it was acquired land located outside the urban area. The new cemetery of buried people, many of whom played a significant role in the life of the city.

During the Second World War, the Nazis carried out numerous executions of the Jewish population in the cemetery. In May 1943, the Germans killed 45 children aged 15 months to 15 years.

After the Second World War in Kielce took place the largest pogrom against the Jewish population in Poland, in which 47 Jews were killed. In June 1946, the ceremony of the burial of the victims of the pogrom. Coffins with the bodies were laid in a mass grave. The funeral was attended by several thousand people, including representatives of national and international Jewish organizations and political parties. After the pogrom, Jews gradually began to leave the city.

Devastated in the period of the occupation, the cemetery was abandoned look. Many tombstones were smashed, graves desecrated. In 1956, city officials decided to officially close the cemetery.

In 2010, at the initiative of Jan Karski with the support of individual it built a new monument to the victims of the pogrom in Kielce. The author of the project is Professor Marek Chekula. The monument is made of sandstone, it engraved with the names of all the victims who died July 4, 1946.