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Auschwitz town gets app to remember Jewish past

July 4, 2012 15:32

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The town in southern Poland where the Auschwitz concentration camp was located now has its own iPhone app.

The app, called Oshpitzin - the Yiddish name for the town, uses the latest technology to tell the story of the pre-war Jewish community of Oswiecim.

On the eve of the Second World War, the town's Jewish community, which dated as far back as the 16th century, comprised around half the population. The community was all but obliterated in the Holocaust.

The app is a project of the Auschwitz Jewish Centre, a non-governmental organisation that serves to educate the public about the Holocaust as well as to guard the memory of its victims.