Only train tracks and barbed wire separate the former German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau from Oswiecim. Its 40,000 Polish residents try to lead normal lives despite knowing their town will always be ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AFP) — Only train tracks and barbed wire separate the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau from Oswiecim. Its 40,000 Polish residents try to lead normal lives despite ...

Aan a town that exists in the shadow of death transform itself into a place of normalcy? The question long has vexed Oswiecim, the town of 40,000 in southern Poland where the notorious Auschwitz death ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (JTA) — In a typical, pre-pandemic year, about 2.3 million people visit Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp where nearly 1 million Jews were murdered. About 30,000 — or roughly ...

Each year, more than 1 million tourists visit Auschwitz to remember the equal number of people who died there. But, according to a recent AP story, "Auschwitz is crumbling — the world's most powerful ...

The train tracks leading to the former Auschwitz concentration camp. Photo: DPA Only train tracks and barbed wire separate the former German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau from Oswiecim. Its 40,000 ...

The Polish city of Oswiecim is better known by its German name, Auschwitz. Seventy years after the Holocaust, life in Oswiecim goes on. But it cannot entirely escape its associations with one of the ...

Oswiecim's residents try to lead normal lives despite knowing their town will always be associated with the Holocaust AFP / Wojtek RADWANSKI Only train tracks and barbed wire separate the former ...

Only train tracks and barbed wire separate the former German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau from Oswiecim. Its 40,000 Polish residents try to lead normal lives despite knowing their town will always be ...

Only train tracks and barbed wire separate the former German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau from Oswiecim. Its 40,000 Polish residents try to lead normal lives despite knowing their town will always be ...