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.

Even before her marriage, Emma Deutsch lived in Uelzen and ran a haberdashery shop at Lüneburger Straäe 10, which was incorporated into the business of the company ›Leo Deutsch‹ üafter the marriage.

The Deutsch family had three children: Alfred (1897–1914, killed in action in the First World War), Gertrud (*1899, presumed murdered in the Auschwitz extermination camp) and Norbert (1902–1974 in Haifa/lsrael).

Hermann Benjamin, born on August 26, 1881 in Uelzen, took over his father Eduard Benjamin's tannery and chemical washing plant as master tanner in 1905.

The business was located at Gudesstr. 28 and operated under his management as ›Uelzener Dampffärberei und chemische Waschanstalt Hermann Benjamin‹. The company expanded beyond the borders of Uelzen – Benjamin opened branches in Salzwedel, Harburg, Lüneburg and Celle.