Jews lived in Uelzen only since the beginning of the 19th century. The reason for this is that in earlier times Jews were not allowed to settle permanently in Hanseatic towns. The site of the Jewish cemetery in Niendorfer Straße was a donation of a wealthy merchant named Levy Louis Benjamin, to the Jewish community of Uelzen in 1849. The cemetery is a protected cultural monument. There are 37 gravestones in the cemetery for Jews from the Jewish community of Uelzen as well as for Jews from the surrounding area who died between the years 1850 to 1940.