The cemetery in Czeladź was established in 1916, dividing the area into quarters for men, women and children. Due to the fact that the necropolis was common to the Jewish communities of Będzin and Czeladź, the area was also divided between them, and so the dead from Czeladź were buried in the front part of the cemetery, and the dead from Będzin in the rear part.

During World War II, Jews burnt in the synagogue were buried in the cemetery, as well as people murdered during the liquidation of the ghetto. The last burials took place in the second half of the 1940's.

The cemetery was devastated from WWII through the following years. In the post-war period, the cemetery area became a "construction warehouse" offering free stone slabs.

This condition changed in 1988. Then the necropolis was tidied up and fenced.

About 3,200 tombstones have been preserved in the cemetery, arranged in 88 rows in the male part and 91 rows in the female part.