Oswiecim

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Oświęcim

(ôshvyĕN`chēm), Ger. Auschwitz, town (1992 est. pop. 45,100), Małopolskie prov., SE Poland. It is a railway junction and industrial center producing chemicals, leather, and agricultural implements. There are coal deposits in the vicinity. In World War II the Germans organized a concentration campconcentration camp,
a detention site outside the normal prison system created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and, in some cases, kill civilians.
..... Click the link for more information. system there, consisting of 3 main and 30 forced-labor camps. At the Brzezinka (Ger. Birkenau) extermination camp as many as 4,000,000 prisoners, mostly Jews, were killed.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Oświęcim

(German, Auschwitz), a city in southern Poland, at the confluence of the Vistula and Sola rivers, in Bielsko Województwo. Population, 41,000 (1972). The city has a chemical plant for organic synthesis, food-processing enterprises, and a leather factory. There is a museum on the site of the former fascist German concentration camp of Auschwitz.

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Oswiecim (pronounced osh-vyen'-tseem) is the authentic Polish name of the town that, for the rest of the world, has become synonymous with ultimate atrocity.

Touring Auschwitz

To do so, he believes, would be to punish Oswiecim's youth for what Hitler did.

Death Goes to the Disco

A guide book written by Kazimir Smolen and published by the State Museum in Oswiecim tells us that the town of Oswiecim and surrounding area was renamed the German "Auschwitz" when Poland fell to the Nazis in September 1939.

Following Edith Stein to Auschmitz

Following the German invasion of Poland, in September 1939, Oswiecim was annexed by Nazi Germany and renamed Auschwitz, the town's German name.

Never to be forgotten

According to Nornberg's interview in Oswiecim with Israeli director and producer Yaheli Gat, who has been filming a documentary about the search, he spent years contacting other survivors in the hopes of corroborating Yarot's claim and supplementing his provided map.

Buried Menorahs Found at Auschwitz

It was because of this large Jewish population, not because of Polish feelings, that the Nazis located the extermination camps in Oswiecim and Bzrezinka.

Notes on the Polish Jewish controversy

And perhaps you've even heard of the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, or Oswiecim's Life Festival, which Eric Clapton headlined this year.

There Were More Than 40 Jewish Festivals in Poland This Year

THE Auschwitz concentration camp was established by the Nazis in 1940 at a Polish army barracks in the suburbs of a small Polish city called Oswiecim (Auschwitz in German).

Atrocity of the camps

Auschwitz was established by the Nazis in the suburbs of the Polish city of Oswiecim which was occupied by the Germans during the Second World War.

Auschwitz

We noticed the desecration on Wednesday," said Artur Szyndler of the Jewish Center in Oswiecim, known as Auschwitz in German.

Jewish Cemetery Desecrated at Auschwitz

But in Oswiecim, the town in southern Poland outside which Auschwitz was built.

Eric Clapton Headlines Oswiecim Life Festival in Poland

Following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Oswiecim was annexed by Nazi Germany and renamed Auschwitz, the town's German name.