The home of the last Jewish man to live in Auschwitz’s town is to be turned into vegetarian café.
Szymon Kluger lived in the town of Ozwiecim in Poland as a child and, after the Holocaust, returned to his childhood home, which is directly behind the town’s former synagogue, until his death in 2000.
In the same year, the former synagogue was turned into the Auschwitz Jewish Centre. The centre has now launched a campaign to turn the house into a vegetarian café, called Café Oshpitzin.
Oshpitzin, meaning ‘guests’, was the Yiddish name for Oswiecim; before the Holocaust over half of the town’s 15,000 inhabitants were Jewish.
