The apartment building belonged to the lawyer, judge and notary Max Carl Hauptmann. After losing his left leg as a front-line fighter in World War I, Hauptmann studied law in Jena and Heidelberg. From 1920 he held various positions in Gera. He himself lived at Tivolistr. 8, later at Amthorstr. 1a, and rented out the apartments in his house. From the mid-1930s, he increasingly rented out to destitute and needy Jews and, after his successive occupational ban (delayed by the "Frontkämpferprivileg"), earned his meager living from the rents. Hauptmann fled to Argentina in 1937.

The grave of the Bloch family can be found in the Untermhäuser cemetery on Untermhäuser Straße.

Finally, the East Cemetery was co-occupied, where Jews were buried within various sections (Dept. B: Halpern family), Dept. E: Biermann family, Dept. I: Hirsch family). Several graves of former Jewish residents, including the resting place of the Salomon family, are found in Section VIe. The members of the family jointly chose suicide on September 18, 1941: Dr. Oscar Salomon 1863-1941, Martha Salomon 1873-1941 and Dr. Hans Salomon 1898-1941). Next to the grave of the Salomon family are several Jewish graves.    

From 1883, the new southern cemetery in Wiesestraße was also used. Also on it individual Jewish graves were found.

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.