Downtown, the 10-year-old Auschwitz Jewish Center makes clear that before the Holocaust, Oswiecim had a majority Jewish population and was known widely by its Yiddish name, Oshpitzin.

(JTA) — The Auschwitz Jewish Center launched a fundraising campaign to rescue the house of Oswiecim’s last Jewish resident. The center, in the Polish town where the Auschwitz concentration ...

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.

Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum, has died.

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism, and is introducing it to ...

Holocaust survivors place lit candles at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German ... marking the 80th anniversary of its liberation, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025.

crushing concentration and extermination camps of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau are located in the city of Oswiecim. More than 1.1 million people died in these camps' barracks, hospitals ...

OSWIECIM, Poland — The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that is widely being treated as ...

World leaders and survivors mark the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation, reminding us to prevent hatred from leading to genocide. Polish police patrols along the fences of Auschwitz ...