SEJNYSejny is little different from any other small, provincial Polish town. It has a few struggling shops and restaurants, a melancholy public square, the standard immaculately painted two-steeple baroque church and a synagogue, which until just over a decade ago had been a derelict warehouse.The Jews who once worshipped here and studied in the adjoining school are not coming back. Almost all of the town's Jewish citizens perished during the Holocaust, and only one Jewish family lives in the area today.The town and surrounding region was also the scene of hard-fought battles between Lithua...
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