Jewish Center

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.

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Email: info@ajcf.pl
Type: Museum
Description: Jewish museum and cultural center located at Jan Skarbek square, Oświęcim
Also known as: “Auschwitz Jewish Center”, “Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim”, “Muzeum Oszpicin”, and “Oshpitzin Museum”
Address: Plac Księdza Jana Skarbka 5, Oświęcim

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Oświęcim Castle and Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Oświęcim.

Oświęcim Castle

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.

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Oświęcim

Church

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Our Lady Help of Christians church in Oświęcim

Church

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Our Lady Help of Christians church in Oświęcim is situated 310 metres south of Jewish Center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oświęcim and Babice.

Oświęcim

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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.