In Gera there was no Jewish cemetery of its own. Jewish people who died in the city were either buried in Jewish cemeteries outside the city or in the municipal cemeteries of the city.  Thus, until shortly after 1885, several Jewish deceased were buried in the old, then closed Trinitatisf cemetery. This cemetery has been dissolved and a park has taken its place. Before the cemetery was closed there were three Jewish graves here. Today there are only two non-Jewish gravestones.

Already in the Middle Ages there was a synagogue ("Judenschule") (named in 1502). 
In the second half of the 19th century, a synagogue (temple) was established (after 1885) in Leipziger Strasse  
. After the end of the First World War, services were held in a back building (upper floor of a side wing) of the then hotel "Kronprinz" on Rossplatz (later "Square of the Republic"). In addition, there were prayer rooms of various Orthodox movements, a larger one (Orthodox synagogue) until 1938 in Hospitalstraße.

The house of the Birnbaum family in Gagarinstraße (formerly Agnesstraße 4) later became a so-called  "Judenhaus".

The house of the Borenstein family in Hußstraße (formerly Schulstraße 16) was later used as a "Judenhaus".

David Wertheim was a teacher in Gera in the years around 1932.

Dagobert Halpert was head of the Jewish community in 1932.

Paula Süßmann was from 1932 chairwoman of the Israelitischer Frauenverein, which was founded in 1896 and was previously under the leadership of Mrs. Hirsch. In 1932, it counted 23 members* who supported those in need of help.

Gustav Hauptmann was chairman of the charity and burial society Chewra Kadischa, which was founded in 1886, from 1932. Before that, Bernhard Süßmann had been chairman since 1924. Its 26 members* (1932) worked in the fields of itinerant welfare as well as funeral services and supported those in need.
The address was Bärengasse 1, which intersected with Schloßstraße.