OSWIECIM, Poland (JTA) — In a typical, pre-pandemic year, about 2.3 million people visit Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp where nearly 1 million Jews were murdered. About 30,000 — or ...

And yet, Oswiecim's hotels stand empty. Tourists rarely spend the night in Oswiecim, a town with 800 years of history, preferring to stay in the nearby city of Krakow.

But I don’t — I live in Oswiecim,” said Gosia, a 30-year-old woman who works at the Catholic Dialogue Center. “This is Oswiecim, my hometown — not Auschwitz!” ...

But beyond the ghostly gates of the Auschwitz memorial is a living town — Oswiecim in Polish (Auschwitz in German) — home to some 40,000 people, living in the dark shadow of Holocaust history.

Obozowa) in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 3, 2019. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP) Rock stars like Santana and Sting have sung and called for world peace in front of thousands of people there.

I want people to remember that, my family has been here for generations. "Before the Nazis came this place was sometimes called Oswiecim-Jerusalem [because of the town's Jewish population].

The Polish city of Oswiecim is better known by its German name, Auschwitz. Seventy years after the Holocaust, life in Oswiecim goes on. But it cannot entirely escape its associations with one of ...

Tourists rarely spend the night in Oswiecim, a town with 800 years of history, preferring to stay in the nearby city of Krakow. In an attempt to revamp the town's image, high-profile journalist ...

And yet, Oswiecim's hotels stand empty. Tourists rarely spend the night in Oswiecim, a town with 800 years of history, preferring to stay in the nearby city of Krakow.