'''O?wi?cim'''[http://www.um.oswiecim.pl] is a city in southern Poland.
Understand
O?wi?cim, a town of 43,000, lies in Southern Poland, roughly 60 km fro Krakow. The town is best known as being home to Auschwitz I, a WWII concentration camp, and its close proximity to the Auschwitz expansion camp - Auschwitz-Birkenau, an extermination/forced labor camp.
The first record of the town dates to the 10th century. Originally, Germans and Poles inhabited the town. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Jewish population of O?wi?cim began to grow and in a relatively short time Jews were in the majority.
Get in
'''By car''' from Katowice (35 km), Krakow (60 km, route 780)
'''By plane''' arriving to Krakow-Balice (55 km) or Katowice-Pyrzowice (70 km)
Get around
See
'''Auschwitz-Birkenau''' Nazi camp
'''Oswiecim Castle'''
'''Cemetery of Moses Religion'''
'''Auschwitz Jewish Center''', it includes a museum about the former jewish life in O?wi?cim. Jews were for 150 years the majority in this town.
Do
Visit Old Town Market, now under reconstruction (spring-summer 2006). The same for the Castle. Under reconstruction - to be finished later this or next year.
Buy
Eat
'''Hotel Galicja''', a bit pricy, but fancy cuisine. Dabrowskiego Street.
'''Rapsodia''' the pizzeria. Good Italian style pizzas, reasonably prices. Sniadeckiego Street (by the town's Culture Center (OCK)).
Drink
'''Galerija''', nice bar, sometimes small exhibitions.
Sleep
'''Hotel Galicja''' [http://www.hotelgalicja.com.pl] a short taxi ride from railway station and memorial.
Get out