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March 16, 2023

A 17th-Century Mikveh Is Discovered Near Auschwitz

The only one of its kind in Europe.

Last month, a construction project in the southern Polish town of Oświęcim—whose German name, Auschwitz, was given to the nearby death camp—uncovered a four-century-old wooden mikveh, or Jewish ritual bath. Shiryn Ghermezian reports:

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