A straight road leads to the Jewish cemetery. Warszawska Street crosses that road then makes a left onto Brzeska Street and a few hundred meters later separates two cemeteries: the Catholic cemetery to the left and the Jewish one to the right. One can get there without actually seeing the town. It is worth it however, to see the colorful square called John Paul II Square , with its XVIII century Saint Joseph 's Church (it used to be a Greek Catholic church). It is also worth it to get lost in the old little streets: Jatkowa or Zelazna, or on Listopadowa Street - across the river - where one can buy the country's famous pyramid cake at Zaniewicz Bakery.

Miedzyrzec used to be known as one of the many important abodes of the Greek Catholics that were under the patronage of Prince Adam Czartoryski. Miedzyrzec was also known - especially among Jews - for its rich cultural life. It was a place where drama groups functioned, where a theater would visit, where books were published and then found in a local library. But the Jews came to Miedzyrzec not only for spiritual reasons. The town, located on the main trade route between Brest and Warsaw , was a convenient connection to Lublin and Chelm and hence an attractive place of settlement for Jewish merchants. In 1674, Jews constituted 21%, and in 1827 - already 65% of the total population. They had a synagogue, houses of prayer, cheder, their own hospital, and later on even three weekly newspapers - published in Yiddish.

The traditional occupation of the local Jews was paint brush and hair brush production. Brush manufacturers hired thousands of workers. Products from the local tanneries were known throughout the world. There were also other factories in the town: a pan factory, a wire factory, a bulb factory and about nine hundred stores. There were doctors and lawyers as well as representatives of other free occupations. Right before the Second World War, Jews constituted 90% of the town's residents (75% when the surroundings are included) 16,000 in total (according to Dr. Naftali Brezniak - a little less according to other sources). 180 houses out of the 201 houses located in the town belonged to Jews.

About 80 granite, sandstone, and cast iron matzevahs survived in the territory of 6.86 acres. Many of them are almost completely overgrown by grass and moss. Here a piece of stone sticks out, there, a piece engraved with a Hebrew font can be found. The inscription on some of them remained in perfect condition, on others they are illegible. They are mostly in Hebrew. Inscriptions in Polish can also be found; for example on the matzevah of common grave of three rabbis killed in 1942: Pejsach Raczko, Ber Roskin, and Dawid Flinkier. The same names appear frequently: Finkelsztein, Zajdman, Szapiro, Szejmel. One can also see the same symbols again and again: open books, crowns, broken trees, and hands on the graves of the Kohanim.

We owe the current state of the cemetery to the Mezritch Relief Committee, a private foundation of Sara and Abram Finkelstein, who originally came from Miedzyrzec, and to the local government which actively participated in its renovation.

The old cemetery, created probably in 1512, is located not far from here, at Brzeska Street . The necropolis was totally destroyed; there is a meadow there today.