[6] It is situated at 40 Szeroka Street in the Kazimierz district of Kraków, beside the 16th-century Remah Synagogue.

The cemetery bears the name of Rabbi Moses Isserles, whose name is abbreviated as Remah.

[7] During the German occupation of Poland, the Nazis destroyed the site by tearing down walls and hauling away tombstones to be used as paving stones in the camps, or selling them for profit.

The tombstone of the Remah (Rabbi Moses Isserles) is one of the few that remained intact.

As is common in contemporary Poland, all original tombstones unearthed as paving stones have been returned and re-erected, although they represent a small fraction of the monuments that once stood in the cemetery.