The Polish town standing in Auschwitz’s shadow strains between its fraught history and its future
Oswiecim has more than eight centuries of history, and some are growing resentful that the world knows little about them ...
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The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window
Some of them encountered the single Jew who lives there. Hila Weisz-Gut, 34, moved from Israel to Oświęcim, the Polish town ...
The rail tracks of Auschwitz still cross the area as aging reminders of horror
During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys ...
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In the shadow of Auschwitz, a museum commemorates an ancient Polish Jewish community
Before the Nazis chose Oswiciem as the site of the infamous death camp, Jews thrived in the city for half a millennium. Now, ...
La Croix4d
80 years after Auschwitz’s liberation, local residents keep the memory alive
Birkenau's liberation, honoring victims and those who helped prisoners from the three camps once located near Oswiecim town, ...
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‘How can you live here?’: Life in Auschwitz’s shadow
Weisz-Gut has now lived for over a year in Oswiecim, a town of around 40,000 inhabitants whose name was Germanized into Auschwitz by the Nazis during the Second World War when they occupied Poland.
Photos show the horrors of Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp, 80 years after its liberation
Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 80 years ago, ...
Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people ...
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Photos: The rail tracks of Auschwitz still cross the area as aging reminders of horror
On Monday, the world will mark the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation, with elderly survivors of Nazi atrocities ...
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AP PHOTOS: The rail tracks of Auschwitz still cross the area as aging reminders of horror
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — During World War II ... its largest extermination camp in Oswiecim — the name of the Polish town that was called Auschwitz under German occupation — because it ...