Synagogue

I had 5 minutes to spare today in K?pno and so took my cameras to look around the old synagogue.
Before the war, K?pno was a shtetl, a small town with a large Jewish community.
Following the invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, K?pno was occupied by the Wehrmacht and annexed by Nazi Germany. It was renamed Kempen and administered as part of the county or district (kreis) of the same name within Reichsgau Wartheland. Red Army troops took the town on January 21, 1945 and with the end of the war, the town became part of the People's Republic of Poland.
What must have happened to the town and its population during this period doesn't bare thinking about. There is little sign of this history now apart from at the synagogue. The building is in a sorry state, boarded up and inside, wooden joists have been crudely added to hold up the massive roof.
Outside are piles of smashed up stone, and in some cases, marble gravestones. A few are from the late 1800s and have Germanic text carved on to them, but the majority are Jewish with Hebrew characters and the star of David.
It was chilling to think who might have destroyed them and under what circumstances. It is odd that the town has never done anything with the building too. It is too far gone to be restored, but why leave it standing? Unless as some haunting memory of the past...