The cemetery at Żychlin has an abandoned and overgrown look to it notwithstanding what was once an impressive memorial. The surviving stones appear to have been gathered into a few monuments.  There seems to be no security or maintenance and there is free access from the road.

The synagogue in Żychlin was said to be in danger of collapse by several people who live adjacent to it; however, I was offered the use of a ladder to climb in the second floor window.  While I did not opt to climb through the window, I did speak with a woman who said she had been inside the synagogue as a small girl in 1943.  She recounted how beautiful it was even then, and said that it remained so until the arrival of the Russian army late in the war.

Synagogue, 2008, view of side and rear.

Synagogue, 2008, view of rear and side.

Synagogue, 2008, exterior view of a building adjacent to the synagogue that was said to have been the rabbi’s house.

view of a building said to have been the rabbi’s house.