These are images of typical older houses and streets that remain in the old Jewish district of Shumsk:

This beautiful house has been abandoned for some time.

If you look very hard at this house, you can see a Magen David pattern in the bricks just under the corner of the roof.

This older house has been decorated recently with patterns typical of Ukrainians' homes in the region. The chickens in the foreground are also typical--they roam freely through the streets of Shumsk.

This former Jewish home now also stands empty and abandoned.

The building on the right now houses Shumsk's museum of town history. There is little mention of Jews in the museum's exhibit.

This is the interior of the town museum. I am standing with Mr. Shafir, born in 1946, whose father was one of few Jews from Shumsk to survive the War. His father went into the Soviet Army prior to the Nazi occupation of the town. Of the seven Shumsk Jews to come back from the Soviet Army, Mr. Shafir's father was the sole to remain in the town. He died several years ago.

It is still very common to see horse-drawn wagons riding alongside automobiles in the streets of Shumsk.