By Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its proximity to the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz – where at least 1.1 million people, mainly Jews, died between 1940 and 1945. Nearly every member of Weisz-Gut’s grandmother’s family was lethally gassed there…

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Oświęcim’s sole Jewish resident reflects on modern antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz camp’s liberation

Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its proximity to the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz – where at least 1.1 million people, mainly Jews, died between 1940 and 1945.

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President Lula's message commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, this Monday (27), was intended as a sign of truce with representatives of the Jewish community, according to close people.
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A mensagem do presidente Lula lembrando os 80 anos da libera��o do campo de concentra��o de Auschwitz, nesta segunda-feira (27), foi pensada como uma sinaliza��o de tr�gua junto a representantes da comunidade judaica, segundo pessoas pr�ximas.
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Among the 34,000 inhabitants of the city of Oświęcim there is only one Jew: a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. This is an interesting choice to live in, as the most famous feature of the city is its proximity to the Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz, where at least 1.1 million people died, mainly Jews, between 1940 and 1945. Almost all members of the family of Weisz-Gut’s grandmother were killed in the gas chambers upon a…

Entre los 34.000 habitantes de la ciudad de Oświęcim hay una sola judía: una joven israelí llamada Hila Weisz-Gut. Se trata de una elección interesante para vivir, ya que la característica más famosa de la ciudad es su proximidad al campo de concentración y exterminio nazi de Auschwitz, donde murieron al menos 1,1 millones de personas, principalmente judíos, entre 1940 y 1945. Casi todos los miembros de la familia de la abuela de Weisz-Gut fuero…

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Oświęcim's only Jewish resident reflects on modern anti-Semitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

The inhabitants of Oswiecim, when they travel, are accustomed to generating all kinds of reactions when they say where they are. Barbara Daczynska, 40, has ever replied that she is from Krakow, about 70 kilometers away, to avoid comments or questions such as: “And in which barracks do you live?” Oswiecim is the Polish place name of this city of 35,000 inhabitants of southern Poland. In German it is called Auschwitz, the place that Adolf Hitler’s…

Los habitantes de Oswiecim, cuando viajan, están acostumbrados a generar todo tipo de reacciones al decir de dónde son. Barbara Daczynska, de 40 años, alguna vez ha contestado que es de Cracovia, a unos 70 kilómetros, para evitar comentarios o preguntas como: “¿Y en qué barracón vives?”. Oswiecim es el topónimo polaco de esta ciudad de 35.000 habitantes del sur de Polonia. En alemán se dice Auschwitz, el lugar que el Tercer Reich de Adolf Hitler…

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Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany, has taken advantage of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to denounce the "normalization of anti-Semitism" today and to recall that "not too long ago" since the Holocaust. Six million Jews were killed by the final solution, when Nazi Germany carried out the extermination of two thirds of the European Jewish population during World War II. Therefore, Scholz has s…

Olaf Scholz, canciller de Alemania, ha aprovechado los actos por el 80 aniversario de la liberación del campo de concentración Auschwitz-Birkenau para denunciar la «normalización del antisemitismo» en la actualidad y recordar que «no hace demasiado tiempo» desde el Holocausto. Seis millones de judíos fueron asesinados por la solución final, cuando la Alemania nazi llevó a cabo el exterminio de dos tercios de la población judía europea durante la…

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Germany denounces the “normalisation of anti-Semitism” on the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation

Jews from Poland, the country where the main extermination camps were built, call not to lower their guard against anti-Semitism.

Des Juifs de Pologne, pays où furent construits les principaux camps d’extermination, appellent à ne pas baisser la garde face à l’antisémitisme.

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Weisz-Gut works at the local Jewish museum, which aims to draw attention to the town’s once-thriving pre-Holocaust Jewish community.

Oświęcim’s sole Jewish resident reflects on modern antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz camp’s liberation

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