Town in 🇵🇱 Poland with a population of around 40 thousand people.
Oświęcim is a small town in southern Poland, located about an hour’s drive west of Kraków. The town is best known as the home of the Auschwitz concentration camp, one of the most notorious and notorious concentration camps of the Holocaust. A visit to Auschwitz is a sobering, but important, experience, and the town is also home to a number of other museums and memorials related to the Holocaust. Oświęcim is also a convenient base for exploring the nearby Kraków and the beautiful countryside of southern Poland.
