Among Jewish cemeteries preserved in northeastern Poland a Jewish cemetery in Krynki established in 1662 by virtue of the royal privilege is one of the largest and most beautiful. In 1840 the cemetery was extended, which is reflected in today’s clear division of the necropolis into a part dated from the C17th -C18th and a newer one from the C19th-C20th. In the 19th century a preserved stone wall with carved numbers showing the cemetery’s sectors was also erected. The last burial took place at this cemetery in 1941.

Even though the Jewish cemetery was partly devastated during the German occupation, about 3100 densely-spread and regularly visited gravestones with Hebrew and Russian inscriptions have survived; the oldest one goes back to 1750. A majority of the matzevot are damaged and inscriptions on some of them are illegible. At this cemetery in Krynki there is also a mass grave of around 70 Jews who died on the field near Krynki during a bombing on the day when the town was seized by Germans.