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Oświęcim’s sole Jewish resident reflects on modern antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz camp’s liberation
Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting ...
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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, ...
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 rail tracks of Auschwitz still cross the area as aging reminders of horror
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.
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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.
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'How can you live here?': Life in Auschwitz's shadow
Hila Weisz-Gut, a 34-year-old Israeli, is sure her Auschwitz survivor grandmother would be outraged by her choice to move to Oswiecim, a Polish town in which Nazi Germany built the death camp.
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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, ...
Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people ...
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Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of Poland in 1939. Early on it was a camp for Polish prisoners ...
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Photos: The rail tracks of Auschwitz still cross the area as aging reminders of horror
(AP Photo/Oded Balilty) Old railroad tracks once used to transport Jews and others from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, cut through the town of Oswiecim ...