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# Oświęcim

A settlement in Poland.

## English name

**Oświęcim** — Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.

Other forms in use:

- **Oswiecim** — Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling.
- **Auschwitz** — Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name.
- **Oshpitzin** — Yiddish community name in Latin transcription, used by the Jewish Museum and its English-language guide.

## French name

**Oświęcim** — Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.

Other forms in use:

- **Oswiecim** — Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French.
- **Auschwitz** — German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources.
- **Oshpitzin** — Yiddish historical community name attested in French writing about the Jewish museum and its exhibition.

## About

Oświęcim is a town on the Soła near its confluence with the Vistula in Lesser Poland Voivodeship. The Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex, now a memorial and museum, stands in and near the town.

## Notes

Auschwitz is the historical German town name and also commonly names the Nazi camp complex. The town, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau are related but distinct places; the alias is qualified accordingly.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q7342](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7342) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/poland/oswiecim/?format=json)


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