The Jewish cemetery in Nowy Wiśnicz was probably established at the beginning of the 17th century. The first mention comes from 1641 and describes a brawl that took place in the cemetery between Salomon Morawiec and Catholic stonemasons who came to see the execution of one of the tombstones, with the intention of making a similar one.
The area of the cemetery was fenced with a stone wall, and there was a pre-burial house at the entrance.
In 1939, the local tzaddik Naftali, son of Szmuel Rubin, son-in-law of Jechzkiel Szraga Halberstam from Sieniawa, was buried in the cemetery in Nowy Wiśnicz. and in 1940 Eleazar, son of Chaim Baruch Rubin (died on September 29, 1940), killed by the Germans. An ohel was built over their graves.
The last burials took place probably in the autumn of 1942.
At the cemetery, the Germans shot the Jews, and on August 31, 1942, also a Pole, Wojciech Gicala, and a three-year-old boy named Pinkes, whom he was hiding.
There is no confirmed information about the devastation of the cemetery during the Second World War.
In 1959, part of the area was occupied by an asphalt plant and a building aggregate warehouse. Its employees extracted sand mixed with human bones from the cemetery. The tombstones were stolen by some inhabitants of Nowy Wiśnicz and the surrounding towns and used as building material, e.g. for filling foundations, building bridges and a liquid manure tank. The wall and the pre-burial house were demolished.
In the early 1980s, the cemetery was taken care of by brothers Abusch and Josef Hirsch from Nowy Wiśnicz. Thanks to their efforts, in 1983, the asphalt production plant was removed from the cemetery, a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust was erected, the ohel was rebuilt, and the entire area was fenced.
Within the cemetery there are about 650 tombstones in various states of preservation, including destructed ones. The oldest of them stand on the graves of people who died in 1639. In the light of research by prof. Andrzej Trzciński, the cemetery in Nowy Wiśnicz ranks among the 15 Jewish cemeteries in Poland with 17th-century matzevahs
