OŚWIĘCIM

ôshvyĕNˈchēm, Ger. Auschwitz, town (1992 est. pop. 45,100), Malopolskie 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 camp 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.

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books on: OSwiEcim  - 177 results

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Hitler's Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness
Book by Konnilyn G. Feig; Holmes & Meier, 1981
Subjects: Concentration Camps, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), World War, 1939-1945--Concentration Camps
...Auschwitz in the 1960s are in J. Fracktiewicz, Oswiecim W Fotografli Arlystycznej Oswiecim: Panstwowego Museum, 1965 ; past and present...Tworczosci Artystycznej: III, Malarstwo Oswiecim: Panstwowego Muzeum, 1962 ; Tom Zbiorowy...
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Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
Book by Rudolph Höss, Steven Paskuly, Andrew Pollinger; Prometheus Books, 1992
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Concentration camp commandants--Biography, Heoss, Rudolf--1900-1947, Nazis--Biography, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German
...soon be established near the town of Oswiecim in Poland. February 21 The inspector...the former Polish military barracks at Oswiecim indicated that it would be a suitable...custody camp at Sachsenhausen, stayed at Oswiecim as head of the second committee, which...
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Survivors of the Holocaust in Poland: A Portrait Based on Jewish Community Records, 1944-1947
Book by Lucjan Dobroszycki; M.E. Sharpe, 1994
Subjects: Holocaust Survivors--Poland--History--Sources, Jews--Poland--History--Sources, Poland--Ethnic Relations--Sources
...ul. Jagiellonska 7 Estusia Haberman 13 mother Rosa OSWIECIM -- Girl 4 unknown JORDANOW near Nowy Targ -- Lebewol Kurt -- unknown OSWIECIM From camp Claudio de Benedetti -- unknown OSWIECIM From camp Reich Adi 11 unknown OSWIECIM From camp...
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The Holocaust Odyssey of Daniel Bennahmias, Sonderkommando
Book by Rebecca Camhi Fromer; University of Alabama Press, 1993
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration Camp), Bennahmias, Daniel, Greece--Ethnic Relations, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews--Persecutions--Greece, Sonderkommandos
...Smolen Letter of 13 lipiec, 1989, Oswiecim-Brzezinka, dn. 1-8523/74/2353/89 Dear Madam, State Museum in Oswiecim Auschwitz confirms receipt of letter...Director Letter of 23 IV, 1990, Oswiecim-Brzezinka, dn. Dear Madam, State...
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The Rape of Poland: Pattern of Soviet Aggression
Book by Stanislaw Mikolajczyk; Whittlesey House, 1948
Subjects: Poland--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union, Poland--History--1945-, Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945, Russians--Poland, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--Poland
...straight to the notorious death camp of Oswiecim. Up to October 14, 12,000 people from Warsaw were sent to Oswiecim. Their fate is death. On October 7...the mass murder of Polish prisoners in Oswiecim in stationary and mobile gas chambers...
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journal articles on: OSwiEcim  - 22 results

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"Liberated by the Yanks": The Holocaust as an American Story in Postwar News Articles
Journal article by Laurel Leff; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 40, 2003
Subjects: Jewish literature--Criticism and interpretation, Political literature--Criticism and interpretation, Political science literature--Criticism and interpretation, Politics in literature--Criticism and interpretation, World War II, 1939-1945
...had witnessed the horrors of camps like Oswiecim Auschwitz and the ghettos of Poland...a Rumanian who spent six months at Oswiecim, and saw her seven brothers, sister...Rosenberg, who during her short time in Oswiecim witnessed S.S. guards strangling women...
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An Approach to Genocide: Lessons from the Auschwitz Project: Robert Carr Shares His Experiences
Journal article by Robert Carr; History Review, 2008
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Description and travel, Concentration camps--Description and travel
...focus of the project was a days visit to Oswiecim in Poland, site of the Auschwitz camp...were met by coaches ready to take us to Oswiecim. An hours journey drove us past forested...small villages and their proud churches. Oswiecim itself was a town where a once-strong...
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Displaced: the Memoir of Eliezer Gruenbaum, Kapo at Birkenau-translation and Commentary
Journal article by Galia Glasner-Heled, Dan Bar-On; Shofar, Vol. 27, 2009
Subjects: Autobiographies, Gruenbaum, Eliezer, Jews, Politics
...prisoners with numbers tattooed on their arms who passed through Oswiecim, survived? I think not even ten percent. I think perhaps...prisoners with numbers tattooed on their arms who passed through Oswiecim, survived? I think not even ten percent. I think perhaps...
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New Evidence concerning the Allies and Auschwitz
Journal article by Rafael Medoff; American Jewish History, Vol. 89, 2001
Subjects: Aerial bombing--History, Air warfare, Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--History, Bombing, Aerial--History, World War II, 1939-1945
...colleague Emil Shmorak opposed it because "we hear that in Oswiecim the Polish name for Auschwitz there is a large labor camp...number of demands. We demanded, first of all, that they bomb Oswiecim, that they should destroy the death camps. This is because...
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Disenchanted Voices: Public Opinion in Cracow, 1945-1946
Journal article by Bartholmew Goldyn; East European Quarterly, Vol. 32, 1998
Subjects: Communism--Public opinion, Krakow, Poland--History, Public opinion--Poland
...communist governments."(34) The PPRs city committee in Oswiecim stated in September 1945 that "not only has societys relation...and even about the government."(35) A month earlier Oswiecim officials reported that the town blamed the Party and the government...
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magazine articles on: OSwiEcim  - 15 results

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Darren Almond
Magazine article by Daniel Birnbaum; Artforum International, Vol. 38, January 2000
Subjects: Almond, Darren--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Installations (Art)--Exhibitions, Oswiecim, Poland--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...anonymous crowd lingers; nothing happens. Its March in the small town of Oswiecim, Poland, also known as Auschwitz. British artist Darren Almonds installation Oswiecim, March 1997 consists of nothing more than two 8 mm films projected side...
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Birkenau: The Place Where Irony Goes to Die
Magazine article by Sebastian D.G. Knowles; The Antioch Review, Vol. 65, Spring 2007
Subjects: Brzezinka, Poland--Description and travel, Museums--Collections and collecting, Museums--Evaluation
...Then they asked where I was going. "Oswiecim," I said. "Tur-ismo?" the one...another sick joke, brought to you by the Oswiecim transportation and signage authority...begins to appear that the city fathers of Oswiecim are doing this on purpose. And then...
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Lessons from Auschwitz: Kathryn Hadley Joins a Group of Schoolteachers and Police Officers in an Innovative Project That Seeks Ways to Better Understand the Holocaust
Magazine article by Kathryn Hadley; History Today, Vol. 60, September 2010
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--History, Concentration camps--History, Holocaust, 1933-1945--History
...in Krakow and took a short drive west to the small town of Oswiecim, where, prior to the Second World War, there lived a community...now abandoned and overgrown. There are no surviving Jews in Oswiecim. We were then taken to Auschwitz I, the first section of...
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Nazi Monstrosity Recalled in Auschwitz
Magazine article by Harvey Hagman; World and I, Vol. 25, May 2010
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Description and travel, Concentration camps
...and an hour later enter the mid-sized industrial town of Oswiecim, passing grimy brick buildings scarred with graffiti. The...or Monowitz, supplied slave laborers for nearby factories. Oswiecim, a town of 40,000, is forever associated with the monstrosity...
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'Terror in the Soul': Remembering Auschwitz
Magazine article by Tom Luke; UN Chronicle, Vol. 42, March 2005
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Concentration camps--History
...the support of Volkswagen Coaching GmbH (Germany), LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa and the International Youth Centre, Oswiecim (Poland). Statements were made by Auschwitz survivors Roman Kent and Kurt Goldstein, as well as by Under-Secretary...
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newspaper articles on: OSwiEcim  - 34 results

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THE WAY I SEE IT; I've Witnessed the Eerie, Evil Silence That Envelops the Death Camp at Oswiecim - Known in German as Auschwitz. That's What You Call Racism
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 23, 2006
Subjects: Concentration camps--Social aspects, Racism--Social aspects
...Silence That Envelops the Death Camp at Oswiecim - Known in German as Auschwitz. Thats...silence that envelops the death camp at Oswiecim - known in German as Auschwitz. Thats...silence that envelops the death camp at Oswiecim - known in German as Auschwitz. Thats...
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Does Anyone Know Brum's Unsung World War II Hero? He Escaped Twice from POW Camps: He Fought in the War Saw Uprising: He Stayed on the Run for Four Years
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), June 13, 2010
...commanders of a potential massacre at the Oswiecim and Buchenwald camps. The dispatch...liquidate the internment camps at Oswiecim and Buchenwald. "A certain Moll...Commander of Birkenau camp - a branch of Oswiecim camp - submitted a plan for which...
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Dozens ofWelsh Students Fly to Poland to Learn at First Hand about the Reality of the Nazi Extermination Camps
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), March 18, 2010
...when we crossed the Vistula River into Oswiecim. According to our Polish tour guide...First stop was the Jewish cemetery in Oswiecim, an industrial town with a population...Prior to the outbreak of war in 1939, Oswiecim, better known by its German name Auschwitz...
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Does Anyone Know Brum's Unsung World War Ll Hero? He Escaped Twice from POW Camps He Fought in the Warsaw Uprising He Stayed on the Run for Four Years
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), June 13, 2010
...commanders of a potential massacre at the Oswiecim and Buchenwald camps. The dispatch...liquidate the internment camps at Oswiecim and Buchenwald. "A certain Moll...Commander of Birkenau camp - a branch of Oswiecim camp - submitted a plan for which...
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'A Cry of Despair and a Warning to Humanity.'
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 6, 2005
...silver birch. The railway line enters Oswiecim at the top end of the town and curves down to it. When Oswiecim was a town in Greater Germany called...reported the killing of Jews at a camp at Oswiecim, where 10,000 bodies a day were being...
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encyclopedia articles on: OSwiEcim  - 4 results

 
 
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OŚwiĘcim
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OSWIECIM oshvyeN chem, Ger. Auschwitz, town (1992 est. pop. 45,100), Malopolskie prov., SE Poland. It is a railway junction...
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Poland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...authorities eliminated a large part of the population by massacres and starvation and in extermination camps such as the one at Oswiecim (Auschwitz). About six million Poles were killed, and 2.5 million were deported to Germany for forced labor. Polish...
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Auschwitz
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AUSCHWITZ see Oswiecim , Poland. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Concentration Camp
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...experimentation, but the Nazis also established extermination camps. In the best known of these Majdanek, Treblinka, and Oswiecim (Auschwitz), in Poland more than six million mainly Jewish men, women, and children were killed in gas chambers. Among...


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