Rechytsa is a regional center in the Gomel region of Belarus. By the end of the 19th century, Jews made up more than 50% of the population here. The town is known as one of the centers of Belarusian Hasidism. For a long time, the great-grandson of Schneur Zalman from Liadi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn was its rabbi.

According to local historians, there was an old cemetery in Rechytsa, where in 1908 Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn was buried. The grave became a center of pilgrimage for believers. In 1922, the cemetery was closed. The believers moved the remains of the rabbi to the new cemetery.

During World War II, the Nazis, for fun, shot at the gravestones in the Jewish cemetery. As a result, some of the tombstones were badly damaged. By 1960, believers were able to restore Schneersohn's grave.

In the post-war years, relatives of those executed by the Nazis at their own expense installed a memorial sign made of bricks with Magen David on the top at the cemetery.

The community also demanded that the authorities fence off the cemetery. An agreement was reached that the authorities will allocate materials, but the work should be carried out on a voluntary basis. However, the matter did not progress beyond the preliminary agreement.

In 1994, a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust was erected at the cemetery with funds from Jews from Rechytsa who emigrated to Israel. In 1999 and 2011, vandals desecrated the cemetery.

Today the cemetery in Rechytsa is one of the few operating Jewish cemeteries in Belarus. The burials are cataloged. There are more than 1.9 thousand of them. Among them 19 are without surnames. In particular, no anthropological data have survived on two graves, on six there is a name or patronymic, and on 11, there are no surnames, but there is a name and patronymic.

The earliest burial, which is included in the catalog, is dated 1921 and belongs to Pevtsova Enta Khilevna (1887-1921). Several burials were made in the 1930s. Among them, the graves of Glukhovsky Yevsey Girshovich and Glukhovsky Yefim Berkovich stand out. The dates of birth of the deceased are not preserved on both graves, but there is a date of burial - 1937.

The latest burials are dated to the 2010s. They belong to Denisenko Irina Iosifovna (1927-2010) and Yevtushenko Alvina Ivanovna (1931-2011).

A significant part of the graves, judging by the dates of burial, appeared in the cemetery in the middle of the 20th century.