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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
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, January 13, 2025. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images, via JTA)
January 28, 2025, 7:38 am
The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window
Hila Weisz-Gut, 34, moved to the Polish town that housed the Nazi death camp to join her Polish boyfriend, whom she met on a Holocaust education trip
By PHILISSA CRAMER
A rabbi says prayers on the eve of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau at the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto, in Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 26, 2024 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
January 27, 2024, 9:42 am
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
Some 20 camp survivors will lay wreaths at the Death Wall in Auschwitz, hold prayers at the monument in Birkenau
By AP
Artist Tova Berlinski was born in Oswiecim, and died in Jerusalem in 2022 at the age of 106 (Courtesy The Israel Museum)
January 17, 2022, 5:49 am
Tova Berlinski, artist who painted the pain of Auschwitz, dies at 106
Oswiecim-born artist painted her life in gray and black, dedicated to her parents and siblings who were killed in the death camp
By Jessica Steinberg
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
A man crosses the rails at the former Nazi German death camp of Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, July 29, 2016. (AP/Alik Keplicz)
June 17, 2021, 7:14 pm
New human remains found near Auschwitz likely of German POWs, experts say
A dozen skulls and several bones turned up near river where German prisoners held by Soviets after World War II were buried
By AP
The railway tracks from where hundreds of thousands of people were directed to the gas chambers to be murdered inside the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz Birkenau or Auschwitz II, in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 7, 2019. (Markus Schreiber/AP/File)
June 11, 2021, 5:00 pm
Poland opens probe into mass burial site found near Auschwitz
Local resident spots some 12 human skulls and multiple bones in bank of river running through nearby town of Oswiecim; prosecutors investigating if remains are linked to death camp
By AP
A swastika on the wall of a Jewish cemetery in Oświęcim, Poland, Jan. 10, 2021. (The Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau via JTA)
January 12, 2021, 7:43 am
Swastika, SS symbol painted on wall of Jewish cemetery near Auschwitz
Graffiti removed shortly after it is discovered; Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum says incident is ‘painful’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Israel ice hockey captain Eliezer Sherbatov. (via Facebook)
August 10, 2020, 1:34 am
Israeli ice hockey star signs to play in Oswiecim, otherwise known as Auschwitz
‘People here in Poland are happy that a Jew from Israel came to play for Auschwitz,’ says Canadian-born Eliezer Sherbatov, who captains national team
By PHILISSA CRAMER
A man walks by the State High School of Oswiecim, located in what used to be SS troops's residential building, in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 3, 2019. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
December 5, 2019, 11:15 pm
In Oswiecim, in Auschwitz’s shadow, history is a tough burden to shake
‘Visitors believe that we should be in mourning all day, every day,’ Polish resident says, a day before Merkel visits former Nazi death camp
By Maja Czarnecka
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
A man crosses the iconic rails leading to the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, July 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, FILE)
April 13, 2019, 9:44 pm
‘I weighed 70 pounds’: Last Auschwitz survivors remember a living hell
As those who suffered through Nazi death camp pass away, the living vow to keep telling their stories to younger generations
By Michel Moutot
Polish far-right activists enter the former German Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2019. (AP Photo)
January 28, 2019, 11:40 pm
Poland opens probe into Auschwitz protesters railing against ‘Jewish invaders’
Prosecutors investigate anti-Semitic incident that took place on International Holocaust Remembrance Day at gates to concentration camp
By AP
The railway track leading to the infamous ‘Death Gate’ at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp on November 13, 2014, in Oswiecim, Poland. (JTA/Christopher Furlong/ Getty Images/File)
May 7, 2018, 9:13 pm
Israeli teen admits to urinating on Auschwitz memorial
Polish prosecutor says 19-year-old asks to pay fine as punishment for relieving himself at former Nazi death camp
By AFP
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