Oswiecim, less than a mile from Auschwitz, had a large, vibrant Jewish community before the Holocaust.

Seventy years after the Holocaust, the Polish town near the Auschwitz death camp cannot escape its association with one of the worst war crimes in history.

Rudolph Hoess, former commandant of the Oswiecim death camp, boasted before the International Military Tribunal today that he had organized the camp so efficiently that most of the 2,500,000 ...

Experiments in artificial insemination which resulted in the painful death of hundreds of women in Oswiecim were described here today by Helena Hamermerz, 25-year-old Jewish girl from Poland, at ...

And yet, Oswiecim's hotels stand empty. Tourists rarely spend the night in Oswiecim, a town with 800 years of history, preferring to stay in the nearby city of Krakow.

A mile from Auschwitz, a restored synagogue recalls thriving Jewish life in Oswiecim For centuries before the Holocaust, Jews flourished in a town known for its railway connections. Now, the house ...