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Auschwitz Jewish Center

The Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecm, Poland receives about 1% of the 2.3 million visitors who come to the former death camp each year. (Courtesy of the Auschwitz Jewish Center via JTA)
April 16, 2025, 10:30 am
80 years after Auschwitz was liberated, kosher food returns to its town of Oswiecim
Auschwitz Jewish Center, housed in last remaining synagogue near site of Nazi death camp, will have kosher food available for visitors, starting ahead of Yom HaShoah this month
By Shira Li Bartov
Polish students learn the history of Oświęcim's Jewish community at the Oshpitzin Jewish Museum on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
February 2, 2025, 9:30 am
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, the last Jewish resident keeps their memory alive
By Zev Stub
The Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecim, Poland, comprises the only synagogue that the Germans did not destroy there. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
November 20, 2021, 9:44 pm
A mile from Auschwitz, a restored synagogue recalls thriving Jewish life in Oswiecim
For centuries before the Holocaust, Jews flourished in a town known for its railway connections. Now, the house of prayer is the final testament to the community’s heyday
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Plan rendering for memorial park at the site of the former Great Synagogue of Oswiecim, Poland, set to open on November 28, 2019 (courtesy: Auschwitz Jewish Center)
July 4, 2019, 4:01 am
Memorial for 400-year-old Jewish community to be built in town next to Auschwitz
Few visitors to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp pass through Poland’s Oswiecim. That might change as sites tied to the city’s Jewish past are preserved, restored, and digitized
By Matt Lebovic
At the 'Auschwitz Synagogue' in Oswiecim, Poland, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
December 3, 2017, 11:40 am
In the shadow of Auschwitz, Jewish life once flowed with spirits
Before the Nazis erased centuries of Jewish life in Oswiecim, Poland, the town was called a ‘city of Israel,’ with thriving Yiddish culture and one of Poland’s first factories
By Matt Lebovic
Rabbi Herschel Schachter conducts services for Holocaust survivors on the Jewish festival of Shavuot, in the Buchenwald concentration camp, May 16, 1945. (Wikimedia Commons)
May 7, 2017, 1:08 am
For the first time, Auschwitz guides taught to teach about Jews’ ‘spiritual resistance’
For 70 years the story of Jews clinging to faith and ritual in the death camps has been overlooked. Now docents are equipped to illuminate their struggles
By Cathryn J. Prince
Fred Schwartz, a New York Jewish philanthropist and businessman, in a 1986 television ad. (YouTube screenshot)
August 11, 2016, 9:39 am
Fred ‘the Furrier’ Schwartz, restorer of Auschwitz synagogue, dies at 83
Donor to numerous Jewish causes, who made his fortune by opening up a once-exclusive industry, passes away in NY
By JTA
Tourists at Auschwitz photographing the 'Arbeit Macht Frei' gate, July 2015. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)
September 10, 2015, 3:31 am
Auschwitz ‘showers’ highlight challenge of Holocaust tourism
The well-being of visitors and the integrity of the historical commemoration is a difficult balance for emotionally charged WWII sites
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
May 16, 2013, 10:15 am
Construction near Auschwitz synagogue digs up past
Unearthed postcard, Yiddish Haggadah shed light on prewar Jewish life in Poland’s Oswiecim
The Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecim, Poland (photo credit: Google Street Views)
April 9, 2013, 2:15 am
Auschwitz center to buy home of Oswiecim’s last Jewish resident
Group launches online fundraising campaign to transform house into a cafe
A sign denotes the empty space where the destroyed Great Synagogue in Oswiecim, the town in southern Poland where Auschwitz was built, once stood. (Ruth Ellen Gruber)
July 29, 2012, 12:50 am
In Poland and Slovakia, restoring awareness of a forgotten Jewish past
Using new technology, the ‘lost cities’ of Bratislava and Oshpitzin come to life and foster a better understanding of the present — for locals and tourists alike
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
June 12, 2012, 11:49 am
US military academy students cleaning Jewish cemetery near Auschwitz
The two-week educational initiative focuses on the Holocaust and related contemporary moral and ethical dilemmas
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