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 ...
AP PHOTOS: The rail tracks of Auschwitz still cross the area as aging reminders of horror
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys in which they were packed into cramped cattle cars.
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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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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, ...
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Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of Poland in 1939. Early on it was a camp for Polish prisoners ...
A photographer walked the railroad tracks that led to Auschwitz and saw the ‘darkness of the past’
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Oded Balilty started with the AP as a freelancer in Jerusalem in ...
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Photos: The rail tracks of Auschwitz still cross the area as aging reminders of horror
cut through the town of Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) Old railroad tracks once used to transport Jews and others from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German ...
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Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
Read: ‘It’s frightening’: Orange County teacher speaks against immigration policies at schools – only on 9 The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of ...
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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 ...