The Jewish religious community in Bremerv rde did not have its own synagogue – until May 1936, services were held in a prayer room in the private home of the Heyn family.

The Heyn family ( Hein Levi) had been resident in Bremervürde since 1753.

In May 1936, the Jewish merchant Siegfried Heyn was forced to sell his home and business premises. Siegfried Heyn moved with his wife to Hamburg in 1937 and then to Bremen in 1938, where he was arrested in the early hours of November 10 and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was released as he was able to prove that he was able to emigrate.

Günther Heyn, Siegfried Heyn's 29-year-old son and 22-year-old daughter Ilse Heyn emigrated to the United States of America as early as 1938.

The doctor and poet Isaac Salomon (Siegfried) Kapper, born on March 21, 1821 in Smíchow near Prague; died on June 7, 1879 in Pisa, was a pioneer and founder of the Czech-Jewish movement.The group around Kapper strove for the full spiritual freedom of the Jews and their assimilation into the Czech milieu. In 1848 (Prague Whitsun Uprising), Kapper took part in the revolutionary and national struggles on the side of the Czechs.

Hermann Gradnauer was born in Wolfenbüttel in 1894, the son of a shoe retailer. After serving in the military as a medic until 1918, he studied dentistry and became a dentist in Hamelin in 1920. His wife Hilde Gradnauer, née Ilberg, also came from Wolfenbättel, where her parents had an important textile business. The couple had two children

‚Brit Haolim‘: Chaluzischer Jugendbund from 1922, which merged with the Jung-Jüdischer Wanderbund in 1925. 

The Jüdischer Jugendbund ‚Brit Haolim‘ had as its practical goal the preparation for life in the kibbutz. The ‚Brit Haolim‘ consistently demanded that every fully educated young Zionist should emigrate to Palestine. Even after emigration, they wanted to live together and then merge into the working class of Palatinate.

Božena Neumannová, née Fuchsová and her daughter Jiřina Sofie were murdered in Auschwitz extermination camp in 1944.

Her husband MUDr. Antonín Neuman – he worked as a prisoner in the camp hospital of the Auschwitz extermination camp – and daughter Eva Marie üsurvived the Shoa.

Shortly before 1939, the Neumann couple had their children Eva and Jiřina baptized as Christians because they thought this would save them from Nazi persecution.

Ilse Maria Landgrebe, née Goldschmidt, was born in Reinbek in 1906. Her parents - Arthur Goldschmidt (lawyer) and Toni Katharina-Maria Jeanette née Horschitz - were Christians of Jewish origin.

Ilse Maria Goldschmidt married the phenomenologist and philosopher Ludwig Landgrebe in 1933.

Because of his Jewish-Christian wife Ilse Maria, Ludwig Landgrebe fled to Prague in 1935.

In 1638, the wealthy Jewish merchant Isaak Jakubowicz (common name: Ajzyk Jekeles) received permission from the Polish King Władysław IV. Wasa granted permission to build a synagogue. This was completed in 1644.

It was repeatedly rebuilt over the years. During the German occupation of Poland in the Second World War, the building was destroyed and the bima was completely destroyed.

After the war, the interior was partially restored; in 1981, it was again destroyed by fire.

The synagogue was donated by the Jewish merchant and financier Wolf Popper in 1620. It was built in the Baroque style.

Today, the building houses a bookshop. All that remains of the former synagogue is the room layout.

The High Synagogue is located in a late Renaissance brick building on a rectangular floor plan. It was most likely built between 1556 and 1563. According to one hypothesis, the synagogue was built by Sephardic Jews following the example of the synagogues built in the Venetian ghetto. Another version states that the wealthy merchant Izrael obtained permission from King Sigismund II Augustus to build a synagogue in the second half of the 16th century. August for permission to build a synagogue and allegedly received it.