300-year-old Jewish mikveh excavated in Auschwitz – Jewish people lived in Poland for centuries until the Holocaust obliterated their numbers. | The Jerusalem Post

A mikveh dating to the 18th or 17th centuries was discovered in the Polish city of Oświęcim, Heritage Daily reported on Friday.
Oświęcim is the Polish name for a place that is far better known for its German name, a name that will live in infamy forever: Auschwitz.
Jews first came to settle in Poland in the early 1200s, according to MyJewishLearning, and, as Heritage Daily notes, first settled in Oświęcim in the 1500s.