When the Old Jewish Cemetery in Lublin was starting to fill up and there was little place left for new graves, it was necessery to create a new kirkut. And so the New Jewish Cemetery (Nowy Cmentarz Żydowski in Polish) was created in what was at that time the outskirst of Lublin in 1828 or 1829. The area for the cemetery was bought on 4 August 1828, but the first burials took place a few years later after a cholera outbreak. The cemetery area was fenced or walled and there was a well at the entrance. The water was used for washing the corpses and for ritual washing of the hands after a visit to a grave.

A funeral home was built in the middle of the 19th century.

A Jewish military sub-cemetery adjacent to the main cemetery area from the north was created here during WW1. Jewish soldiers from various armies who fell nearby Kraśnik and Lublin were buried there.

Among the important people to be buried at this cemetery are rabi Meira Jehuda Szapiro and several tsatikds from the Eiger line.

Rabi Meir Jehuda Szapiro He was a religious, social and political activist and founder of the world-famous Lublin Talmudic School called the Lublin Sages Jeshivah (Jesziwa Mędrców Lublina in Polish). This is how one of the students of the Jeshivah, Joseph Friedenson, remembered the rabi's burial in an inteview for the Magazyn Internetowy Forum: "The burial took place on October 29, gathering countless crowds who filled the entire Lubartowska Street and Unicka Street, as well as the new Jewish cemetery. Crying filled the city. Several dozen rabbis from all over Europe had came. As it was written: the Jewish king had died."

The ohel of the Eigers holds tsadik Jehuda Lejb Eiger (d. 1888), grandson of Akiba Eiger from Poznań and pupil of Menachem Mendl from Kock andi Mordechaj Leiner from Izbica; tsadik Kohen son of Jacob (d. 1900) and pupil of Jehuda Lejb Eiger; tsadik Abraham son of Juda Lejb Eiger (d. 1914 ); and Izrael Noe son of Abraham Eiger.

During WW2, having occupied and terrorised Poland, Nazi Germans mercilessly pursued their plan not just to hurt, not just to decimate but literally to annihilate the large and thriving Jewish population of Lublin. The annihilation included also the devastiation of Jewish centers of eternal rest. Thus Nazi Germans destroyed the matsevahs and used their broken parts to pave the so-called Black Road in the Majdanek Concentration Camp (cf. entry on findagrave.com). They did not spare the grave of both rabi Meir Jehuda Szapiro in his ohel and the Eigers, either. What remained after this cemetery holocaust was an empty field, a few more or less broken matsevahs, two ohels and part of the wall.

The body of rabi Meir Jehuda Szapir was moved to the Ha-Menuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem in 1954.

The cemetery was entered into the Registry of Cultural Property (Polish: Rejestr zabytków) of Poland in 1986. The Sara and Manfred Frenkl Foundation took over care of the cemetery in the 1988. Thanks to the Foundation the cemetery area was tidied and surrounded by a wall of cement blocks in the shape of matsevahs with a stylised menorah inbetween every few matsevahs. Memorial plaques to the Holocaust victims are fixed on some of the matsevahs from the inside.

In the beginning of the 2nd millenium, the cemetery has an area of 8.6 ha and it holds ca 50 tombstones. At the entrance there is a Memorial Room with a small synagogue where prayers are held several times a year by visting Jews groups from Israel and USA.
The cemetery is still being used by the small Jewish community living in Lublin.

SOURCES:
Bielawski K. LUBLIN - nowy cmentarz żydowski (Lublin - the New Jewish Cemetery) on:
http://cmentarze-zydowskie.pl/lublinnowy.htm
and
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowy_cmentarz_żydowski_w_Lublinie