Jewish visitors to Auschwitz can now buy kosher food

Arutz Sheva ^ | 5/4/25 | Shira Li Bar Tov

[Eleutheria5]

Eighty years after Auschwitz was liberated from the Nazis, Jews who make a pilgrimage there can eat kosher food.

A mile from the concentration camp, visitors will be able to buy packaged, shelf-stable kosher meals for the first time at the Auschwitz Jewish Center — now a museum and the only surviving synagogue in Oświęcim, the Polish town renamed Auschwitz by the Nazis.

The kosher concession will open in time for Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, beginning on the night of April 23. The day is marked in Poland with the March of the Living, in which thousands of people march from Auschwitz to Birkenau. The Auschwitz Jewish Center will also add prayer services to its program ahead of the occasion.

This year, 80 Holocaust survivors will join the March of the Living, making it one of the largest gatherings of survivors at Auschwitz in recent history. The march also includes Jewish teens from around the world.

Before the Holocaust, Oświęcim was more than half Jewish, a small town with over 30 synagogues. Kosher butchers, bakeries and restaurants were commonplace. But this year, only one Jew is reported to live in Oświęcim — and she works at the Auschwitz Jewish Center. Hila Weisz-Gut, whose grandmother survived the camp, moved there in 2023 to join her Polish boyfriend. Many other members of her family were among the 1 million Jews killed at Auschwitz.

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[Paal Gulli]

"...visitors will be able to buy packaged, shelf-stable kosher meals...."

That addresses my chief concern. Coffee or tea shouldn't be objectionable but they obviously would have to be very circumspect about any other food preparation methods that might produce any aroma of note.

[ANKE69]

And that is why I find different languages and dialects so fascinating. 🤷‍♀️
I’ve been in Pennsylvania, in the Amish community a few times and I can understand every word of the Deitsch, Pennsilfaanisch-Deitsch (Pennsylvania German) but I can’t speak it at all. Learning that is my next adventure in the world of languages.
Btw, I just noticed on your homepage that you’re in Israel.
Visiting Israel is and has been on my my bucket list for a long time.
Stay safe.

[Eleutheria5]

I studied ancient Greek, and love Aristophanes. Tried to read Homer, but after Telemachus’ meeting with Menelaus, I could see why Helen ran out on him. What an obnoxious bastard, even if he did have a loud war cry.

[Eleutheria5]

Josephus is too hard to parse. Very complicated language.