The Jewish cemetery in Oświęcim (German: Auschwitz), Poland, was destroyed by the Germans during World War II and partly restored by returning Jewish survivors...

Beata Szydło (PiS), Oświęcim is twinned with: Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim Auschwitz Supermarket Oświęcim Jewish cemetery Tourism in Poland Mural...

creating a Jewish cultural and educational center in Oświęcim. A year later, a sister organization, Fundacja Edukacyjne Centrum Żydowskie in Oświęcim, was established...

openly Jewish person to live in the town of Oświęcim, Poland, (German: Auschwitz) from 1962 until his death in 2000. Although Oświęcim had a Jewish community...

Kleuger, the last native Jew of Oświęcim, died in 2000. His death in 2000 brought to an end the old Jewish community of Oświęcim. At the time of the Nazi invasion...

The Oświęcim Treasure is an archaeological discovery of about 400 items from the Great Synagogue in Oświęcim, discovered in 2004 by a team of archaeologists...

religious life of the Jewish community of Oświęcim focused around the synagogue. The main rabbis of the Jewish community in Oświęcim who held services in...

Kiryat Shaul Cemetery (Hebrew: בית העלמין קריית שאול) is a 320-dunam (32 hectares) Jewish burial ground in Northern Tel Aviv near the neighborhood of Kiryat...

of the former Oświęcim Synagogue, which was later handed over to Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim. In 2004, on behalf of the Jewish community in Bielsko-Biała...

pre-World War II Jewish community that existed in Oświęcim. The synagogue was the first communal property in the country to be returned to the Jewish community...

Jewish survivor was a woman who tended the two Jewish cemeteries. A website, dedicated to the town's Jewish history, commemorates the names of Jewish...

Lublin) (pl) New Jewish Cemetery Synagogue (pl) Wrocław White Stork Synagogue Small Synagogue (pl) Gdańsk New Synagogue (pl) Oświęcim Synagogue (Chevrah...

Jewish Holocaust Centre (Melbourne, Victoria) Leo Baeck Centre for Progressive Judaism (Kew, Victoria) Holocaust Memorial Melbourne General Cemetery Holocaust...

Ashkenazi Jews. At the start of the Second World War, Poland had the largest Jewish population in the world (over 3.3 million, some 10% of the general Polish...

synagogue and the Auschwitz Jewish Center. The synagogue, the sole synagogue in Oświęcim to survive World War II and an adjacent Jewish cultural and educational...

of the Polish state under its first ruler, Mieszko I of Poland. 960 – A Jewish merchant and trader from Spain, Ibrahim ibn Yaqub (Abraham ben Jacob), travels...

1951, in Oświęcim and was buried in the parish cemetery in Oświęcim. Skarbek actively built good relations with the Jewish community of Oświęcim based on...

(English, 1998). Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. ISBN 83-85047-63-8. He Sobrevivido al Infierno. (Spanish, 2002). Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau...

kippah—when eating, praying, studying Jewish texts, or entering a sacred space such as a synagogue or cemetery. The Reform movement has historically been...

Schaue, Wymysorys: Naojśtaod) is an old town on the Skawa river within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship (since 1999) in southern Poland. From...

Anti-Jewish violence in Poland from 1944 to 1946 preceded and followed the end of World War II in Europe and influenced the postwar history of the Jews...

covers Cieszyn Silesia and western Lesser Poland, including the city of Oświęcim (German: Auschwitz). The city of Bielsko (German: Bielitz) and the city...

The history of the Jews in 19th-century Poland covers the period of Jewish-Polish history from the dismemberment of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...

Andrzej Duda. Project coordinators: Auschwitz Memorial and State Museum in Oświęcim, and Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw. Archived from the original...

history of the Jews in Poland before the 18th century covers the period of Jewish-Polish history from its origins, roughly until the political and socio-economic...

(2,972) of the Jewish soldiers deserted, many to join the Irgun. General Anders decided not to prosecute the deserters. The cemetery of Polish soldiers...

The Jewish Community of Gdańsk (German: Danzig) dates back to at least the 15th century though for many centuries it was separated from the rest of the...

old Austro-Hungarian (and later Polish) army barracks near the town of Oświęcim; its German name was Auschwitz. Höss commanded the camp for three and a...

the Jewish Labour Bund leadership smuggled out of the occupied Poland by Home Army couriers. The Polish government-in-exile, together with Jewish groups...

define Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe. During this time period, the Jewish community of Poland would also experience the tail-end of Sabbatianism in...