Jewish Telegraphic Agency13y
Oswiecim, the city of Auschwitz, wrestles with whether the past must be part of its future
But few of the more than 1.2 million people who visit the Auschwitz camp each year ever set foot in Oswiecim or even know that the town exists. “It is difficult to comprehend what it must be ...
The Forward on MSN3d
The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window
Gut’s grandmother survived Auschwitz. In 2023, Weisz-Gut moved to the town where the concentration camp is located.
La Croix13h
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, ...
Auschwitz survivors the focus of ceremony to mark 80 years since camp's liberation, Holocaust Remembrance Day
Survivors of the Nazi's notorious Auschwitz death camp are taking center stage at the memorial service to mark 80 years since ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency3y
A mile from Auschwitz, a restored synagogue recalls thriving Jewish life in Oswiecim
OSWIECIM, Poland (JTA) — In a typical, pre-pandemic year, about 2.3 million people a year visit Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp where nearly 1 million Jews were murdered. About 30,000 ...
Wane3d
AP PHOTOS: The rail tracks of Auschwitz still cross the area as aging reminders of horror
People visit railroad tracks and a carriage used for prisoner transports in WWII, just outside the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland ...
Alaska Dispatch News3d
At Auschwitz memorial, survivors see echoes of the past in rising antisemitism
in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) Lauder, 80, recalled how he has been attending the anniversary observances for 50 years, but now he must be “realistic.” ...
British PM Starmer visits Auschwitz, vows to fight antisemitism ahead of security talks in Poland
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has visited the site of the Nazi German extermination camp Auschwitz ahead of talks with ...
WFMZ-TV4d
At Auschwitz memorial, survivors see echoes of the past in rising antisemitism
People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim ... but now he must be “realistic.” "This may well be the ...