Auschwitz commander's home open to the public, converted into center for Holocaust history
The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has ...
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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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In the shadow of Auschwitz, a museum commemorates an ancient Polish Jewish community
Weisz-Gut moved to Oświęcim to intern at the Auschwitz Jewish Center as part of her master’s program in Holocaust studies from the University of Haifa, and hopes to eventually move back to Israel.
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The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window
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 ...
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Letters: Eighty years later, the sobering lessons of Auschwitz
Today Oświęcim is better known as Auschwitz. Nobody can be unaffected by a visit to this, the largest of the Nazi death camps. The shock on arrival is overwhelming. It is impossible to calmly ...
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Obóz Auschwitz to nie Oświęcim
Organizacja Narodów Zjednoczonych w 2005 r. ustanowiła Międzynarodowy Dzień Pamięci o Ofiarach Holokaustu nieprzypadkowo 27 stycznia, w rocznicę wyzwolenia w 1945 r. niemieckiego obozu koncentracyjneg ...
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Auschwitz survivor insisted daughter learnt to play violin for one heartbreaking reason
Established in 1940 as a holding camp for political prisoners in occupied Poland, Auschwitz (the German name for the town of Oświęcim) evolved into the largest and most notorious Nazi ...
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Oświęcim’s sole Jewish resident reflects on modern antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz camp’s liberation
Today, Weisz-Gut can see Auschwitz III-Monowitz, where her grandmother survived, from her bedroom window. She moved from Israel to join her Polish husband in Oświęcim, his hometown, in 2023 ...