Oswiecim, known as Auschwitz ... Only a few of the 500,000 people who visit the concentration camp each year actually find their way into the city. ... "Oswiecim must find its way back to normalcy ...

The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window Hila Weisz-Gut’s grandmother survived Auschwitz. In 2023, Weisz-Gut moved to the town where the concentration camp ...

And yet, Oswiecim's hotels stand empty. Tourists rarely spend the night in Oswiecim, a town with 800 years of history, preferring to stay in the nearby city of Krakow.

Hila Weisz-Gut, 34, an Israeli researcher in Holocaust studies who relocated to Oswiecim to be with her Polish husband, walks on the street in Oswiecim, Jan. 13, 2025.(Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via ...