The beginnings of Jewish settlement in Marki could be dated back presumably to XVIIth century. The Jews lived mostly in Pustelnik region. The synagogal district of Marki was subordinated to the Jewish commune in Bródno. In 1826, the first synagogue of Marki was built on junction of present-day Piłsudskiego and Rejtana streets. It existed until the beginnings of XXth century, when a new, brick synagogue was built in Pustelnik. The Beyt Ha-knesset of Pustelnik suffered from Luftwaffe bombing in September 1939.

The Jewish cemetery in Marki is a doubly forgotten place. There are no tombstones; the written sources also remain silent. The necropolis was founded before the outbreak of World War II, at the end on present-day Sienkiewicza street. Probably only few burials took place here.

Janina Rembecka, who comes from Marki, recalls that "there was no funeral house. The dead, wrapped in a sheet and a blanket, were carried directly from their homes to hackney carriages and then, accompanied by a group of several funeral weepers, bodies were brought to the Jewish cemetery ".