Oświęcim (Polish: [ɔˈɕfjɛɲtɕim] ⓘ; German: Auschwitz [ˈaʊʃvɪts] ⓘ; Yiddish: אָשפּיצין, romanized: Oshpitzin; Silesian: Ôśwjyńćim) is a town in the Lesser Poland (Polish: Małopolska) province of southern Poland, situated 33 kilometres (21 mi) southeast of Katowice, near the confluence of the Vistula (Wisła) and ...

4 days ago · 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 its ...

2 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 ...

4 days ago · Oświęcim, city, Małopolskie województwo (province), southern Poland. It lies at the confluence of the Vistula and Soła rivers. A rail junction and industrial centre, the town became associated with the nearby sites of a Nazi concentration and extermination camp complex known as Auschwitz, the first

6 days ago · FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 01/24/25. President Trump Announces Presidential Delegation to attend the Commemoration of the 80 th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim, Poland ...

Oświęcim leży w centrum Kotliny Oświęcimskiej, między Pogórzem Karpackim a Wyżyną Śląską. Z okolicznymi regionami łączą miasto dogodne połączenia kolejowe, drogowe i wodne. Przez centrum miasta przepływa rzeka Soła, a północną granicę dzielnicy Dwory stanowi Wisła. Miasto znajduje się przy ujściu Soły do Wisły. W ...

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

Nowadays, Oświęcim is a town with over 40,000 inhabitants, it is a center of numerous peace initiatives, a meeting place for people of various nationalities, regardless of religion and beliefs, a place where new generations want to build a future without wars and violence.

Oświęcim is a town in Małopolskie Province in southern Poland, 60 km west of Kraków. It's better known by its German name of Auschwitz , and from 1940 to 1945 over a million people, mostly Jews, were slain in the nearby camps.

2 days ago · A parade of dignitaries and dozens of Holocaust survivors came to Oświęcim on Monday to pay tribute to the 1 million Jews who died there. Some of them encountered the single Jew who lives there. 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 ...