The Jewish Cemetery in Zory (Cmentarna Street) was founded in 1814. Previously the deceased were buried in Mikolow. The first burial took place in 1814 (of a woman called Guettel). In 1837, a pre-burial house was built. Last funeral  was held  in 1936. During the Second World War the Germans devastated the cemetery, taking away many matzevot. During the battle for the town, in January 1945, the pre-burial house was demolished.

About 45 tombstones have preserved in the area of 0.6 ha, where a few matzevot has been piled up. It is worth mentioning the gravestone of rabbi Nachman Wolff Wischnitz, who in 1823 came to Żory from Gliwice to participate in the circumcision ceremony of a son of Adolph Loewy, a merchant. He died of asphyxiation and was buried there. The inscription on his tombstone reads that a great prominent rabbi was buried there. [[refr:"nazwa"|B. Kubit, Rabini gliwiccy [in:] Żydzi Gliwiccy, red. B. Kubita, Muzeum w Gliwicach, Gliwice 2006, pp. 133-134.]].

The cemetery’s site is covered with trees and surrounded by a brick wall.

In 1895, on the initiative of the municipal authorities, an inventory of the cemetery was carried out  and the fence was mended.

In 1994, the Association of Żory Town Lovers  (Towarzystwo Miłosnikow Miasta Zory) took care of the cemetery and carried out an inventory of tombstones. The keys to the cemetery’s gate are kept in the Municipal Engineering Plant (Zakłady Techniki Komunalnej).
In 1994, Jehuda Nishri, the representative of former inhabitants of the town, visited the cemetery.