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 proximity ...

Auschwitz was established in 1940 when Nazi Germany opened a new camp complex in Oświęcim in southern Poland to hold prisoners. What began as a political prison of Polish nationals evolved into ...

The exhibit traces the rise of Nazi ideology and the transformation of Auschwitz from an ordinary Polish town, known as Oświęcim, into a place where unimaginable atrocities and extraordinary hum ...