The cemetery was founded in 1752 by the purchase of a plot of land "An den weißen Bergen" by three Schutzjuden of Bleckede named in the purchase deed, Emanuel Hertz, Salomon Mosis and Benjamin David. In 1802, the cemetery was expanded to its present size by another land purchase. A death list exists for the period from 1789 to 1935.

Community life and school reform: The Bleckede synagogue community, which was founded in 1844 and to which Dahlenburg and later Hitzacker also belonged, was housed here and used the upper floor as a prayer room. This was also the birthplace of the reform pedagogue Dr. Kurt Löwenstein (1885-1939). A member of the Reichstag since 1920 and head of municipal education in Berlin, Löwenstein advocated school fees based on income, expansion of school lunches and workers' baccalaureate courses. In 1933 he emigrated to France, where he succumbed to a heart attack in May 1939.

Initially, the Jews living in Brotdorf attended the synagogue in Merzig. By the first half of the 19th century at the latest, a prayer room had been established in Brotdorf in one of the Jewish houses. When the number of Jewish inhabitants had increased relatively strongly around the middle of the 19th century, the community decided to build a synagogue. The previous prayer hall had become too small. In order to finance the synagogue, a house collection was to be held in other communities in the spring of 1854, but this was rejected.