{
  "place_id": "osventsym#7779_11067",
  "wikidata": "Q7342",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Oświęcim",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Oświęcim",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Oswiecim",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Auschwitz",
          "why": "Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Oshpitzin",
          "why": "Yiddish community name in Latin transcription, used by the Jewish Museum and its English-language guide."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Oświęcim",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Oswiecim",
          "why": "Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Auschwitz",
          "why": "German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Oshpitzin",
          "why": "Yiddish historical community name attested in French writing about the Jewish museum and its exhibition."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Oświęcim is a town on the Soła near its confluence with the Vistula in Lesser Poland Voivodeship. The Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex, now a memorial and museum, stands in and near the town.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Auschwitz is the historical German town name and also commonly names the Nazi camp complex. The town, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau are related but distinct places; the alias is qualified accordingly.",
  "rank": 281,
  "slug": "oswiecim"
}