The Auschwitz Jewish Center opened in 2000 in Oswiecim, the sleepy town less than a mile from the notorious concentration camp. It includes a museum with thousands of artifacts, a small café ...

Hila Weisz-Gut, a 34-year-old Israeli, is sure her Auschwitz survivor grandmother would be outraged by her choice to move to Oswiecim, a Polish town in which Nazi Germany built the death camp.

At least 1.1 million people were murdered there, more than in any other site of murder of the many groups targeted by Nazis.Oswiecim, a small Polish town of around 10,000 inhabitants, was occupied ...