The city is situated next to "Książ Castle" which during the World War II, together with the underground cave complex, was expanded to create Adolf Hitler's private quarters there.
Old fortifications from around 1279, the year the city was founded, still remain.
A decision by the mayor of the small eastern Hungarian town of Sátoraljaújhely to expell four Roma families, with a total of 60 members, has provoked widespread anger throughout Hungary.
The European Roma Rights Centre is concerned about systematic attacks on the Roma community, particularly in the south-western town of Swiebodzice.
A Polish priest has been suspended from his post for one year after he told his congregation that 'the Jewish minority should not be accepted in our government' - an apparent reference to the nomination to the post of foreign minister of Bronislaw Geremek, who is of Jewish descent.
On November 26, 1996, a police officer in the southern town of Wodzislaw Slanski, in which a fifteen-year-old Romani boy named Robert Pawlowski suffered a broken skull and brain damage as a result of injuries inflicted by an Officer B.S. in the presence of the victim's aunt.
Recent police abuses have also reportedly taken place in the towns of Kielce, Suwalki, Swiebodzice, Tarnów and Ziebice.
Field missions conducted by the ERRC in Romania indicate a widespread pattern of police raids on Roma communities, in which whole communities are turned out of their houses at dawn and subjected to checks of local residence permits, physical abuse in public and in custody, and unsanctioned forced labour.
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