The Jewish cemetery in Sosnowiec-Milowice is located in Stalowa Street, between allotments and the border with Czeladź, at the level of Stawowa and B. Prusa Streets. In view of the fact that the archives of the pre-war Kehilla in Sosnowiec were destroyed, the establishment genesis of this necropolis as well as its history have sunk in the darkness of history. In his paper entitled "Żydowskie gminy wyznaniowe w Zagłębiu Dąbrowskim" (“Kehillas in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie) ("Bulletin ŻIH" (JHI Builettin), No. 1-2/145/461 of 1988), Wojciech Jaworski says that because the cemetery in Gospodarcza Street was filled up, in the late 1920s the kehilla made an effort to establish a new place for burials in the grounds of the Society of Mines and Steelworks in the district of Milowice. However the plans were not implemented then. Moreover, the necropolis is not marked in the Military Geographical Institute map, which was published in 1933. Most probably, the cemetery was established just before the outbreak of the Second World War and served as a place for burials until the ghetto in Sosnowiec was liquidated. This thesis is proven by a record made by Natan Eliasz Szternfinkiel in the book published in 1946, "Zagłada Żydów Sosnowca" (“The Extermination of the Jews of Sosnowiec”). Describing the life of the Jews from Sosnowiec in the last years before the outbreak of the Second World War, N. Szternfinkiel mentions also “the cemetery in Piaski”.

In a relatively large area, about twenty gravestones or their fragments have survived until today, of which only a few have been preserved in a condition which makes it possible to read the epitaphs. The monuments which we have identified come from the period of the Holocaust. Some of them are probably symbolic. Among such gravestones, there is one of Rachela Gross, who died in 1943 in Auschwitz and a matzeva of a man whose surname was Zylbersztajn, and who died on 30 June 1945 in Terizin (Theresienstadt). One of other matzevot bears an inscription with a legible fragment: "[....) Szlomo Tarnhajm’s wife. She died a martyr’s death. She was killed by German murderers on 19 elul 1942 [1 September 1942 ] at the age of 47. May her soul be bound in the bond of eternal life".

According to a document drawn up in 1965, by the Jewish Religion Congregation in Sosnowiec, in 1960s the cemetery was destroyed and its fencing was removed. Since the beginning of the war, no renovation works have been carried out.

One of the Internet surfers wrote on the website www.sosnowiec.info.pl that there were “a lot of demolished gravestones” at that time in the area of the necropolis. It may be assumed that some of the owners of the nearby allotments contributed to the devastation of the cemetery. Despite information boards, the area of the cemetery serves as an illegal waste dump. In addition, traces of plundering the gravestones can be noticed.