Today, instead of many previous monuments, there is only one monument standing in the old Ukmergė Jewish cemetery – symbolically reminding the passers-by about the existence of the cemetery that used to be there. As well as the existence of Jewish community in Ukmergė, that used to be there until 1941. At the end of the 18th century Jews of Ukmergė received a permission to designate this plot of land as a cemetery.

As is customary in the Jewish tradition, the cemetery was located outside the city. At the end of the 19th century the cemetery was expanded in order to meet the needs of growing local Jewish community.  This traditional Jewish cemetery was no different from other Jewish cemeteries in Lithuanian shtetls, it also had a building for funeral rituals in the territory of the cemetery.  The old Jewish cemetery of Ukmergė was devastated during the Nazi occupation of 1941-1944 and later in was totally destroyed during the second Soviet occupation of Lithuania.