The Polish town standing in Auschwitz’s shadow strains between its fraught history and its future
Oswiecim has more than eight centuries of history, and some are growing resentful that the world knows little about them ...
The Times of Israel12d
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a museum commemorates an ancient Polish Jewish community
Before the Nazis chose Oswiciem as the site of the infamous death camp, Jews thrived in the city for half a millennium. Now, ...
La Croix14d
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, ...
Daily Express12d
Auschwitz survivor insisted daughter learnt to play violin for one heartbreaking reason
Established in 1940 as a holding camp for political prisoners in occupied Poland, Auschwitz (the German name for the town of Oświęcim) evolved into the largest and most notorious Nazi ...
Daily Mail18d
The town that turned into Hell: 80 years after the death camp was liberated, then-and-now pictures reveal how life has changed in the Polish town the Nazis transformed... into ...
But for the rest of the world, the town is synonymous with one thing - the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. Following Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939 and the outbreak of WWII, the Nazis immediately ...
Assignment: Death marches - uncovering the truth beneath the soil
Amie Liebowitz’s own great-grandmother was murdered Auschwitz-Birkenau, while her great-aunt was rescued by the Soviet forces. She speaks to those on both sides – German and Polish – who are ...
Walk through a history book in Krakow
The story of Kraków is one of light and shadow, where Middle Ages and Renaissance chapters contrast with darker pages from ...
CNN on MSN19d
Oświęcim’s sole Jewish resident reflects on modern antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz camp’s liberation
It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its proximity to the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz – where at least 1.1 million people, ...
'My family was murdered at Auschwitz. Her grandfather drove trains to the camp'
I never got to meet my grandfather Ludvig, who survived the Holocaust, or his mother Rachel. They were put onto a cattle cart ...
AP PHOTOS: The rail tracks of Auschwitz still cross the area as aging reminders of horror
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.