For context, the German name for Oświęcim is Auschwitz. Yes, that Auschwitz. Between 1940 and 1945, it is believed that over a million people were killed at the Auschwitz concentration camps ...

This book, published three years after the war by the Kraków-based Polish Association for the Maintenance of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Site, probably constitutes the first album devoted to the ...

The Touch of an Angel, a documentary directed by Marek Tomasz Pawłowski based on the memoirs of Henry Schönker, is a poignant lyrical monologue of a man who returns to the places where he found refuge ...

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 ...

Stanisław Kłodzinski, MD, 1918–1990, lung specialist, Department of Pneumology, Academy of Medicine in Kraków. Co-editor of Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim. Former prisoner of the Auschwitz‑Birkenau ...

The idea to organize medical and nursing aid directly on the site after the liberation Auschwitz was put forward at one of confidential meetings of doctors who had participated in the Warsaw Uprising ...

Officials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Site Foundation in Oświęcim, near Krakow, Poland, have called on local authorities to stop the ice cream from trading outside the former Nazi ...

King Charles III of Great Britain will begin his visit in Kraków and Oświęcim. He is also scheduled to visit Wawel Castle ahead of the commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the liberation ...

Incident during a trip of German students to Krakow and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. The 17-year-olds posted a video online in which they performed the Nazi salute. The police are investigating ...

For centuries before the Holocaust, this town of around 40,000 situated about 30 miles east of Krakow had a large and vibrant Jewish community, with no fewer than 20 synagogues.

After being rushed to a nearby hospital in Oświęcim, a stone's throw from Krakow, Poland, doctors had no choice but to pronounce her brain dead. The terrible news of her passing was made public ...

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 ...