Poland – A new multimedia project has been launched to highlight the long Jewish history of Oswiecim, the former shtetl in southern Poland where the Nazis built the Auschwitz death camp.
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The project, launched this week, is called “Oshpitzin” – the Yiddish name for the town – and centers on a website, http://www.oshpitzin.pl.
Though notorious as the site of the Auschwitz camp, Oswiecim had a majority Jewish population before World War II.
The project includes an interactive map of synagogues, businesses and other pre-war Jewish sites, plus films, photographs, articles, memoirs, interviews and other educational material on its Jewish history.
Many Hasidic tazdikim, and Rabbis lived in Oshpitzin.
i wonder if they are basing this on a book written years ago about the city with pictures and maps plus a list of those that were murdered i have my mothers copy she was born there to a belzer family