Gmina Oświęcim
Gmina Oświęcim is a rural gmina in Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the town of Oświęcim, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 38,700 residents
- Description: rural gmina of Poland
- Also known as: “Oswiecim” and “Oświęcim”
- Neighbors: Oświęcim
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jewish Center and Oświęcim Castle.
Jewish Center
Museum
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The Auschwitz Jewish Center is a non-governmental organization whose mission is to preserve the memory of the Jewish community of the city of Oświęcim and educate about the dangers of anti-Semitism, racism and other prejudices and intolerance.
Oświęcim Castle
Museum
Photo: Jacek Daczyński, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oświęcim Castle is a castle raised in the Medieval Ages on the top of a hill, on the right bank of the River Soła in Oświęcim. The castle comprises a thirteenth-century early-Gothic defence tower covered by a roof, a two-floor building built around a courtyard and additional connections between the wings built in 1929–31.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oświęcim and Auschwitz III (Monowitz).
Oświęcim
Photo: Lankhorst, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oświęcim is a town in Małopolskie Province in southern Poland, 60 km west of Kraków. It's better known by its German name of Auschwitz, and from 1940 to 1945 over a million people, mostly Jews, were slain in the nearby camps.
Auschwitz III (Monowitz)
Locality
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Monowitz was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from 1942 to 1945, during World War II and the Holocaust. For most of its existence, Monowitz was a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp; from November 1943 it and other Nazi subcamps in the area were jointly known as "Auschwitz III-subcamps".
Zaborze
Village
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Zaborze is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Gmina Oświęcim
- Category: rural municipality of Poland
- Location: Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Gmina Oświęcim” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Oświęcim landa-udalerria”
- Belarusian: “Асвенцім”
- Belarusian: “Гміна Асвенцім”
- Cebuano: “Oświęcim”
- Chinese: “Oświęcim Kong-siā”
- Chinese: “奧斯威辛鎮”
- Czech: “Gmina Osvětim”
- Dutch: “Oświęcim”
- French: “Oświęcim”
- German: “Gmina Oświęcim”
- German: “Oświęcim (Landgemeinde)”
- Italian: “Oswiecim (comune rurale)”
- Italian: “Oświęcim (comune rurale)”
- Italian: “Oświęcim”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Oświęcim”
- Persian: “اوشوینچیم”
- Persian: “گمینا اوشوینچیم”
- Persian: “گمینای اوشوینچیم”
- Polish: “gmina Oświęcim”
- Polish: “Oświęcim”
- Portuguese: “Comuna de oswiecim”
- Portuguese: “Comuna de Oswiecim”
- Portuguese: “Comuna de oświęcim”
- Portuguese: “Comuna de Oświęcim”
- Russian: “Гмина Освенцим”
- Russian: “Освенцим”
- Slovak: “Gmina Oświęcim”
- Slovak: “komunita Osvienčim”
- South Azerbaijani: “قمینا اوشوینچیم”
- Swedish: “Oświęcims kommun”
- Turkish: “Oświęcim”
- Ukrainian: “Гміна Освенцим”
- Ukrainian: “Ґміна Освенцим”
- Ukrainian: “Освенцим”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gmina Oświęcim”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Soła and Monowitz concentration camp.
Małopolskie: Must-Visit Destinations
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