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Around The Jewish World: Auschwitz, the place of memory versus Oswiecim, the living city
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Gruber, Ruth E.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
09-21-2000
Around The Jewish World: Auschwitz, the place of memory versus Oswiecim,
the living city
In its 800 years of history, this town in southern Poland has been called
by three names.
Two are well-known: the Polish name, Oswiecim, and the infamous German
name, Auschwitz.
The third name, almost forgotten, appears on no current map.
But it was the name probably known best to most of the town's residents in
the years before World War II: the Yiddish, Oshpitsin.
Jews first settled in Oswiecim during the 15th century. By the eve of World
War II, some 7,000 ...
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