1879 Foundation of the "Israelitischer Verein zur Befriedigung religiüser Bedürfnisse" for the planning and construction of the small wooden synagogue for around 50 people. It is located slightly above the nearby Protestant Salvator Church and the Catholic Church of St. Joseph. So many people came to the inauguration that the synagogue was too small. As a good neighbor, the opening was moved to the Catholic parish hall.

In 1925, the 50th anniversary of the Jewish community was celebrated, for which the synagogue had been specially prepared.

The Gärtner family lived in Barnstorf from 1910, most recently at Bahnhofstra<e 139, the house we are standing in front of. Before they moved in here, they lived with the Wesermann family for some time.

In Barnstorf, Max Gärtner was a respected cattle dealer, just like his father and his brother. He owned a plot of land with stables; he also had a lot of grazing land in the community. Max Gärtner preferred to trade in large livestock: he bought the cattle in the surrounding area and sold them in Osnabrück and Dortmund.

Max returns to his wife Maria after being wounded in the First World War. The Seligmanns lived in the half-timbered house with their five children. Vegetables were grown in the front garden. There was also room for fruit trees. The house also had a workshop. After the First World War, Max no longer worked as a butcher like his father, but as a trader in used goods, until the Nazi regime forbade this. Despite being arrested on 9.11.1938 and sent to Buchenwald, he returned in December 1938. They had to go into hiding in 1944.

The Jewish cemetery „Am Leipziger Tor“ was laid out in 1687, extended several times – and almost completely destroyed in the November pogrom of 1938. Burials have been taking place here again since 1995.

The Jewish burial ground is located within the municipal cemetery on Eberhardystra e    

The Jewish cemetery established in Gommern around 1810 is located in Wiesenstraße, near the Judenbrücke. It is enclosed by a fence. The last burial took place at the end of the last century. Destroyed during the National Socialist era, there are no gravesites left today. A memorial stone commemorates the Jewish victims.

Max Lerner was born on June 2, 1874 in Krakow.

He probably grew up speaking German and had an Austrian passport when he emigrated to Uelzen in 1893 at the age of 19. He got work in the business of his later father-in-law Jakob Kupferstein. In 1899 he married Antonie Kupferstein (1877-1942) in Hanover, and from 1904 onwards ran Antonie's father's raw products and metal goods business in Achterstra<e.

The couple had five children, of whom Jenny and Herta survived.