Oświęcim (Polish: [ɔˈɕfjɛɲtɕim] ... a new town hall was built between 1872 and 1875. In another fire in 1881, the parish church, a school, and a hospital burned down. In 1910, Oświęcim became the seat of a starosta, and in 1917–18 a new district, Nowe Miasto, was founded. In 1915, a high school was opened.

4 days ago · (CNN) — Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is...

3 days ago · Hila Weisz-Gut, 34, moved from Israel to Oświęcim, the Polish town where the Auschwitz memorial and museum is located, in 2023 to join her boyfriend, a Pole whom she met on a Holocaust education ...

Dec 20, 2024 · Count among the latest casualties of the Israel-Hamas war an all-volunteer police chaplain program in Montclair, New Jersey.

3 days ago · The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window Weisz-Gut works at the local Jewish museum, which aims to draw attention to the town’s once-thriving pre-Holocaust ...

Jan 24, 2025 · Before World War II and the Holocaust, Oświęcim was home to a vibrant Jewish community comprising more than 50% of the city’s population, with more than 30 synagogues. Today, the Auschwitz Jewish Center stands as the sole surviving shul from that time, serving as a museum and educational hub dedicated to combating hatred and bigotry.

In the 16th century, the first Jews arrived in Oświęcim, a town strategically located at a crossroads of important trade routes. Known as “Oshpitzin” in Yiddish, meaning “guests,” this small Polish town became home to a growing Jewish community.

Mar 6, 2019 · Before Auschwitz became the ultimate symbol of the Holocaust, it was an ordinary Polish town known as Oświęcim, where Jews made their home from the early 16th century until the Holocaust, when most of them were murdered.

6 days ago · Best known by its German name, Auschwitz, the town of Oświęcim has learned to live again. ...

3 days ago · OŚWIĘCIM, 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 ...