There was a school for boys, an old age home, and a cemetery operated by the Jewish community before World War II.

After World War II the buildings and ruins of Grosse Hamburger Strasse, the cemetery became a park and was given monumental protection.

[5] Plaques, a memorial stone, and sculptures were erected throughout the cemetery, the school for boys and the site of the old age home.

The Jewish community that inhabited area around Grosse Hamburger Strasse was populated in 1671 with a fraction of the people who had been expelled from their homes in Vienna.

Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg had issued an edict to allow 50 families to move to Berlin in around 1671.

[5] In 1941, Nazis established a collection point at Grosse Hamburger Strasse for Jews to be deported from the city.

[7] More than 50,000 people were sent initially to Nazi concentration camps at Kaunas, Łódź, Minsk, Riga, and Theresienstadt.