When the Empire was founded in 1871, 255 Jewish citizens lived in Brandenburg/Havel. Their number increased to 469 by 1925. In 1877, the Jewish community built a new community center with rabbi's and cantor's apartment on the street side in Große Münzenstr. 15.

Lilli Friesicke was born Elisabeth Luise Lilli Culp on October 8, 1888, in what is now Wuppertal. In 1909, she graduated from high school in Remscheid and studied medicine in Bonn and Jena, which was very unusual for women at that time. In mid-1914, Lilli Friesicke passed her state examination, and in 1915 she received her doctorate on "The significance of fetal hydrocephalus as an obstacle to birth," and in the same year she became an assistant physician at the Medical Polyclinic in Jena.

There are 16 gravestones of Jewish soldiers from the 1914 - 1918 war preserved in the Jewish cemetery of honor at the Waldfriedhof Aachen. They are located on a small, elevated area near the entrance of the cemetery. The gravestones are difficult to find in the huge grave fields.

Before the synagogue was built in 1852, there was a prayer room located in the Simon family home.

After the forced dissolution of the synagogue community by the Nazis in 1937, the building was sold and became part of a restaurant. Thus, the building escaped destruction during the November pogrom of 1938 and is preserved to this day.

The old Jewish cemetery is no longer recognizable as such, around 1928 there were still four visible gravestones, whereabouts unknown.

The new Jewish cemetery is located as part of the general cemetery from the street on the left side of the perimeter wall, but has an entrance along the footpath to Starkenburg. A formerly associated extension plot is no longer part of the cemetery. The entrance gate and the arrangement of the gravestones were renewed after 1945.