Szlichtyngowa (Gorczyna) Jewish Cemetery

Established as early as 1752 in the forest, 1 km NW of the town on the way to the Głogów Wschowa, 51 of mostly gray sandstone matzevot and fragments, remain in the 0.18-hectare, rectangular Jewish cemetery. The oldest gravestone (Rachela bat Dawid) dates from 1751 and the latest from 1923 (Rosa Goldstein). The last burial in the cemetery took place in 1934, but the gravestone did not survive. The area belongs in the village of Górczyna by the road from Głogów to Wschowa. Surviving also is the 1.5-meter stone wall with a gate on the SE side erected in the 19th century. In 1990s, the 19th century sandstone, typical rectangular matzevot with Hebrew and German inscription were brought to the cemetery from Wschowa, some with a semi-circular pediment. The site is clean. The gravestones are inscribed in a register. Section borders are unclear. After 1945, neglect went to permanent devastation although in the 1960s the matzevot still occupied the whole cemetery. Then, the granite and marble gravestones were taken. Authorities planned to liquidate the cemetery in 1972 but never did. However, the systematic robbery and vandalism continued until the end of the 1980s when the then curator of the Judaic museum in Leszno, Dariusz Czwojdrak, decided to rescue it with the help of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Kopczyński, halting the degradation of the cemetery and reconstructed it gradually. In 1989 the cemetery was landmarked.