Baron Hirsch was established in 1899. Nevertheless, continued vandalism, as well as apathy and neglect remained problems at Baron Hirsch for decades, resulting in numerous overturned grave markers. A major cleanup of the grounds was started in March 2011 with the help of the
Community Alliance for Jewish-affiliated Cemeteries, and may have helped curb vandalism as well. The cemetery is composed of about 500 plots or sections belonging to synagogues, Jewish associations, family circles, and most commonly,
landsmanshaftn. Most plots are entered via gates or pairs of stone columns. Some of the landsmanshaftn plots have monuments dedicated to Holocaust victims of the Nazis in their ancestral town, including plots for immigrants from
Wodzislaw,
Poland;
Gvardeyskoye and
Nadvirna,
Ukraine; and
Hlusk,
Belarus. ==Notable burials==