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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.

The Jewish cemetery in Hüls was established in 1891 and occupied only in 1894. Its area is 920 m². The gravestones and fragments preserved there date from 1894-1940. The inscriptions on the gravestones are documented in the epigraphic database epidat of the Steinheim Institute in Essen. The cemetery in Hüls is today considered a protected monument. 
A memorial plaque at the entrance to the cemetery reads "In memory of the Jewish fellow citizens on the 50th anniversary of the Reichskristallnacht, Hüls 10.11.1988, SPD Hüls". The burial site is locked and not freely accessible.

The Jewish cemetery in Drove was occupied at the latest since the second half of the 19th century. However, it is probably older. In 1852, the Drove synagogue community had the cemetery, which was then located in the so-called "Judendriesch" field, newly enclosed. Jewish citizens who died in Kreuzau and Nideggen were also buried here. The cemetery was last occupied in 1941 (last burial of Gustav Roer on June 4, 1941).  
   

The medieval cemetery of the Jewish community of Münster was located on the outskirts of the city on the grounds of the Paulinum Gymnasium. After the plague pogroms against the Jews in the Middle Ages, the cemetery was leveled. A last remnant of this cemetery is a memorial stone from 1324, which is located in the synagogue of Münster's Jewish community. It is the oldest surviving Jewish gravestone in Westphalia.

The Jewish cemetery on Freiligrathstraße has existed since the end of the 18th century. It is located outside the city at the western end of Freiligrathstraße and is 792 m² in size.

In the cemetery there are gravestones with both German and Hebrew inscriptions. The oldest gravestone dates from the year 1866. Furthermore, there is an inscription board at the cemetery with the history of the burial place. 

Since 2001, the sculpture "Diaspora" by the artist Dan Richter-Levin also stands in the Jewish cemetery of Plettenberg.

The Jewish history of Unna goes back to the 13th century. In the 19th century, the Jewish community experienced an upswing and established, among other things, its own synagogue and a Jewish school. In 1854 the Jewish synagogue community was officially founded in Unna. In the same year, the community acquired a plot of land on Massener Straße and established its cemetery there. 

A first Jewish cemetery in Warburg was established in 1687 in the Mollhauser Graben in front of the northwestern town wall - in the Zwinger area - of Warburg's new town. The land was leased from the town. This cemetery was occupied until about 1828. It had been extended in 1758, 1772 and 1796. In 1828 the town sold the plot after a legal dispute with the Jewish community, which the latter had lost. No gravestones are preserved from this period.  

The Jewish cemetery in Wassenberg was established in 1690 on Roermonder Straße and occupied until 1990. Today, there are still 17 gravestones there and a stele commemorating the fate of the Jews of the small community.

Documentary evidence of settlement of Jews in Anrath exists since the middle of the 17th century. The cemetery in Anrath was established before 1800 and served not only the small community of Anrath, but also the deceased Jews from Neersen. Since 1970, the districts of Anrath and Neersen belong to the city of Willich.

In Bad Ems there is an old and a new Jewish cemetery, which are located directly next to each other. The old cemetery was established around 1800. Below it lies the new cemetery created since the end of the 19th century. Both parts are today located within the general cemetery in the Emsbach Valley. Unoccupied areas of the Jewish cemetery were integrated into the general cemetery after 1945, which is why in a newer extension of the Jewish cemetery from the 1930s only one row is occupied by graves of Jewish deceased, the ones below are occupied by graves of non-Jewish deceased.