Oswiecim has more than eight centuries of history, and some are growing resentful that the world knows little about them ...

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.

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.

The anniversary has taken on added poignancy due to the advanced age of the survivors, even as new wars makes their warnings as relevant as ever.

Nazi Germany established its largest extermination camp in Oswiecim — the name of the Polish town that was called Auschwitz under German occupation — because it was centrally located in Europe ...

(AP Photo/Oded Balilty) 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 ...

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 ...

OSWIECIM, Poland — Before their city became ... with their Christian neighbors for nearly 500 years. A tour of the town’s Jewish museum on International Holocaust Remembrance Day revealed ...

(AP Photo, File) 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 ...