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Visions of Dune played backwards at half speed and then tweaked with effects; the second side is a triptych titled Oswiecim after the Polish word for Auschwitz (Sjazner's being a Polish Jewish family who managed to narrowly evade being deported to concentration camps) and lives up to its harrowing inspiration.
blissblog 2009
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Also included is Oswiecim (the Polish word for Auschwitz, the death camp where more than a million people were killed from 1942-45) a three part work dealing with Szaner's extended family's experience of the Holocaust.
Brainwashed 2009
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Yes, geographically Auschwitz is in the city of Oswiecim, which is in Poland.
What should Stephen Fry's gravestone read? | the POLSKI blog 2009
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Others weren't there at all; Oswiecim, Brzezinka, and of course, Treblinka—those place-names were shrouded by an enormous length of death which trailed like a wake across a sea of ashes.
The Replica City Al Bray 2011
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Jesco Denzel/Bpa/Zuma Press COMING FULL CIRCLE: German President Christian Wulff, second from left, traveled with Auschwitz survivors to the former concentration camp Thursday in Oswiecim, Poland, to attend a ceremony marking the anniversary of the liberation of the World War II-era death camp.
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Called the Center for Dialogue and Prayer in Oswiecim, it is located, according to its website, "On the Threshold of Auschwitz."
Jeffrey Feldman: Lie About Auschwitz Fuels Park51 Hysteria 2010
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My ultimate destination was near the little town of Oswiecim, Poland, less than an hour away from the beauty of the well-preserved city of Krakow.
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In October 1939, Nazi Germany annexed the Polish town of Oswiecim, renamed it Auschwitz and incorporated it into its gau (province) of Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia) as part of the Landkreis (county) of Bielitz.
Alex Storozynski: The Wall Street Journal understands history, when will the rest of the American media? Alex Storozynski 2010
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My ultimate destination was near the little town of Oswiecim, Poland, less than an hour away from the beauty of the well-preserved city of Krakow.
Lea Lane: Holocaust Remembrance, Part 2: Walking in Hell 2010
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Called the Center for Dialogue and Prayer in Oswiecim, it is located, according to its website, "On the Threshold of Auschwitz."
Jeffrey Feldman: Lie About Auschwitz Fuels Park51 Hysteria 2010
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