Hila Weisz-Gut, a 34-year-old Israeli, is sure her Auschwitz survivor grandmother would be outraged by her choice to move to Oswiecim, a Polish town in which Nazi Germany built the death camp. For ...

OSWIECIM, Poland — This sunny town of roadside strawberry stands and flower-filled roundabouts lies less than a mile from the darkness of Auschwitz, with its barbed wire, starvation cells and ...

Life in Oswiecim, a town in Auschwitz's shadow 15 August 2024 at 3:30. Only train tracks and barbed wire separate the former German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau from Oswiecim.

Before the war, about 60 per cent of Oswiecim’s people were Jewish, and murals in town still honour this history. Very few of the 8,000 Jews who lived here survived the Holocaust.

Before the Holocaust, Oświęcim was more than half Jewish, a small town with over 30 synagogues. Kosher butchers, bakeries and restaurants were commonplace. But this year, ...

Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its ...

Old railroad tracks once used to transport Jews and others from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, cut through the town of Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 24 ...

Auschwitz the labor and death camp. The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of Poland in 1939.

Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its ...