opening of the Great synagogue memorial park
in Oświęcim
Maciek Zabierowski, Auschwitz Jewish Center
Before Oświęcim became Auschwitz, it was home to a Jewish community for 400 years. Today with no Jewish residents, the town just paid tribute to its Jewish past and honored the Great Synagogue of Oświęcim, destroyed by the Nazi Germans in November 1939.