OSWIECIM, Poland (JTA) — In a typical ... and philanthropist Fred Schwartz opened a museum at the synagogue. Klüger’s old home was renovated and reopened as Café Bergson, a cafeteria ...

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.

On Monday, as Auschwitz hosted ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of its liberation, the museum and its synagogue — the only one in Oświęcim — opened their doors for attendees who ...

OSWIECIM, Poland — Before their city became infamous ... Jews represented 60% of the population and maintained 29 synagogues and religious institutions. “The 7,500 Jews living here before ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP ... Leon Weintraub, a 99-year-old survivor from Lodz, Poland, decried the rising hatred which he blames on “increasingly vocal movements of the radical and anti-democratic right.” ...

Survivors and relatives attend a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim ... a 99-year-old survivor from Lodz, Poland, decried ...

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 ...