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Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

is a memorial and museum in Oswiecim, Poland, which includes the German concentration camps Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau.It is devoted to the memory of the murders in both camps during World War II.The museum performs several tasks, among them research into the Holocaust.On July 2, 1947, the museum was founded by resolution of the Polish parliament.The area covers 191 hectares, twenty of them in camp Auschwitz I and 171 in camp Auschwitz II.Since 1979 the former concentration camp has belonged to the World Cultural Heritage and more than 25 million people have visited the museum.The areas of remembrance are Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the train ramp between Auschwitz and Birkenau which was used as a "debarkation-stop" between 1942–1944.The three kilometres between Auschwitz and Birkenau are within walking distance.The museum is situated in several original buildings.

Castle in Oswiecim

building erected in the Middle Ages to the top of the hill on the right bank of the river Sola in Oswiecim.The castle consists of a thirteenth-century early Gothic tower defense roof roofed, two-storey building erected podpiwniczonego rectangular in shape (old wing of the castle from the early sixteenth century) and the connector from the years 1929-1931 was built on the site of an older building.A significant part of the fortifications through the ages took amending its course the river.On the hill are the remains of the castle walls, bastion.Below the castle stretches two tunnels: the older (built before 1914 on) and the second hollow by the Germans (1940-1944).This tunnel served as a raid shelter.

Chapel of St. Jack

part of the former monastery of the Dominican, who was in the first half of the fourteenth century.The monastery served as the Chapter (place of meetings and religious meetings).It is located south of the Church of Our Lady Help of Christians.Built of brick, rectangular, dwuprzeslowa, cross-vaulted with ribs.Profile of ribs is straightforward, vaults keystones are round supports a form of pyramid.At the chapel's crypt.Probably it is the burial place of the Oswiecim men including Prince Wladyslaw I Oswiecim and his wife Eufrozyny - founders of the monastery.Outside the chapel is a tight-fitting buttresses.The elevations of the eastern, southern and northern two windows closed semicircular arc.The only entrance from the west side, doors, sheet metal, semi-circular.Inside is an epitaph of the deceased in the 1656 Nicholas Mstowskiego.

The market in Oswiecim

is on the site of the medieval trading site of a wooden building.Currently the market is surrounded by brick houses and bars formed on the disc.Last year, the streets were rebuilt in the Market Square.It was the first phase of the revitalization of the Old Town.The government plans to the city on the Sola is the modernization of the market board.This in a certain part of it belongs to private persons.Outstanding legal issues and no decision on the Oswiecim Strategic Government Programme very difficult to carry out this investment.

Chevra Synagogue in Oswiecim

a synagogue a beit midrash located in Oswiecim, the site of Father John Skarbek 5, formerly known as Hospital Square and Church Street.The concepts of building a synagogue probably born soon after the registration in 1893 years the Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot brotherhood.Originally, the members of this association prayed in the synagogue Chrzanow Hasidim.In 1912 year the fraternity bought by your property located at Square Hospital on the marriage of Joseph and Gisela Glassow.Already in 1913 began efforts to build a synagogue and headquarters of the association.

Chapel Hallers in Dwory

family mausoleum Hallers located in the eastern part of the Courts (district of Oswiecim).It is part of the old manor complex built in the first half of the nineteenth century, divided street.Victory in two parts.Ruined court buildings stand on the south side and north side of the park is a remnant of the only well-preserved object lawery - chapel.

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