Grashoppers chirp in the summer heat, under which the leaves of the plants curl up and wrinkle. Of a once flourishing Jewish rural settlement, almost wiped out by the allies of the German National Socialism and then forgotten by the regime of the Soviet Union, only gravestones remain in the tall weeds. In 2001 the last Jewish inhabitant, owner of a mill, left the town.
"And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low; Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets." (Ecclesiastes 12:4-5)